&gt; This is a misunderstanding, and is what I was pointing out.<p>No. You are misunderstanding things.<p>&gt; because an observer infinitely far away can&#x27;t see it<p>No, it&#x27;s not that the observer can&#x27;t see it (too hard to see or something like that). It never <i>occurs</i> in the timeline of the observer.<p>From the point of view of the observer it never actually exists. That it exists from the point of view of someone else is irrelevant. It&#x27;s not a semantic game about I can see it you can&#x27;t.<p>It literally and actually simply does not exist.<p>(Not to mention the context is gravity waves, so if it never exists from the point of view of the observer it also can&#x27;t make gravity waves.)