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To: ETL
Gravitons, too, the supposed massless 'carrier' of gravity, travels at precisely light speed.

I don't believe that is true.

In order for light to be affected by gravity wells, gravity must travel faster than light.

If, in fact, gravity travels at all. It's kinda like saying magnetism travels. It's just a static field that gets weaker with distance.

146 posted on 07/09/2019 8:35:51 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce; ETL
If it exists, the graviton is expected to be massless because the gravitational force is very long range and appears to propagate at the speed of light.
147 posted on 07/09/2019 8:44:15 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: ShadowAce
If, in fact, gravity travels at all. It's kinda like saying magnetism travels. It's just a static field that gets weaker with distance.

What happens when one turns on an electromagnet? Surely the force travels from one point to another.

Or when two enormously massive objects such as neutron stars or black holes collide. Prior to the collision, their gravitational fields are different than they are afterwards, and the newly created combined effect is propagated outward into space.

149 posted on 07/09/2019 8:55:43 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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