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chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-01-10 13:37

3 Special clothes are needed to protect people from gravitational waves?

This handout image from the European Southern Observatory on October 16, 2017, is an artist’s impression showing two tiny but very dense neutron stars at a point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. [Photo/VCG]

Since the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, many online sellers have started to sell the so-called “gravitational-wave-proofed clothes”. Anything with a temperature higher than -271.15℃ will radiate energy.

However, only high-energy ionizing radiation will harm human body, such as alpha rays and x-rays. Gravitational waves have very little impact on human body, so no special protection is needed.

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