Originally Posted By: Orac
You sort of have all the pieces conservation of energy....


I think this is the point at which I am stuck.

We established that a graviton could not give rise to another graviton (or gravitons) if the total energy of the daughter graviton(s) was greater than that of the parent. Conservation of energy, and all that.

However, we seem to be saying that if we ignore gravitons, gravity creates more gravity.

So where does the additional energy come from, and why does the process not violate conservation of energy?

There never was nothing.