[SubMareener]

Burkhard Heim’s Theory says that gravitational waves travel at 4/3 c, i.e. faster than light.

[TexasGator]

Falsified

[neverevergiveup]

“Burkhard Heim’s Theory says that gravitational waves travel at 4/3 c, i.e. faster than light.”

Interesting. Newton's law states that ‘physical’ interactions propagate at infinite speed. As such two bodies of mass encountering one another for the first time should instantaneously affect one another. If Heim, or any of the others who have theorized gravitational waves, are correct in their theory that gravitational waves travel at a finite speed, this should be testable. There should be a measurable delay in the onset of the effects of bodies of mass initially encountering one another.

[semaj]

Instinctively I am of the opinion that they are even faster than that. Gravity is something that either is or isn’t.

[odawg]

Reminds me of the scientist who said gravitational forces travel much faster than the speed of light.