How do garavity waves in the Medium of space in Universe differ from light waves?

Answer 1

I am shocked by what crap the users who answered before me are telling, it all is only partially right.

It is correct that gravity waves are distortions of space-time itself.
However, light waves are not at all em ... nor anything out of an EM field or beam or matter ...
light waves are an emission of energy as like as radio waves or xray waves or gamma waves ... the only difference is, that the frequency of so called light waves is in a renge visible for the human eye ... that's it.

And what "The Instigator" wrote about gravity is just complete nonsense. If these wves were too weak to be detected, why do we have detectors for especially that on earth ?? And why did we already discover some ? They are just hard to detect, that's all.

And for the last user answering bevor me: A "graviton" is only a model of thought serving a simplified imagination of how gravity works. Of course there is no particle called graviton. If you don't understand why, then you need to learn a lot about quantum physics ... If you don't know about this, do not answer such questions.

Answer 2

Mathematically physicists have shown that gravity waves exist and expect that they travel at the speed of light, but they have not been able to isolate or prove the existence of a "graviton" or energy particle associated with the event. When that happens, then we will be able to get a much greater understanding of the elusive "Unified theory".

Answer 3

Light waves are electromagnetic, while gravity waves are distortions of space-time itself.

Answer 4

for one, gravity waves are too weak to detect by orders of magnitude, if indeed they do exist.