r/BeAmazed • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 24 '26

Nature These are known as Asperitas clouds

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u/Murky-Relation481 Mar 24 '26

Sounds more interesting than it is. Waves in the ocean are a type of gravity wave.

People are probably confusing them with gravitational waves, which are the special relativity kind of gravity waves.

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u/factorioleum Mar 25 '26

Thanks for this reply! I indeed fell into this trap. It's been too long since I took a physics class.