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To: Aric2000
"As Einstein thought, C is the limit, so I would have to assume, since he was right about a LOT of things, that Gravity would travel at C as well."

Perhaps, but Einstein has also been misquoted on quite a few things, too. That's something to consider.

Another thing to consider is that Newton was a rather clever fellow, too, perhaps even in Einstein's league.

...And Newton says that Gravity propagates at near instantaneous speeds.

That's something else to consider.

134 posted on 06/25/2003 10:14:22 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
And Newton says that Gravity propagates at near instantaneous speeds.

Lets try a different tack.

If you have a flat sheet of rubber and you place a large ball on it, you will see a curve. If you roll a smaller ball near it the smaller ball will curve due to the bend in the sheet. This is a good analogy of a gravity field. This sheet is there all the time. However, a wave can be created in that sheet which will then propagate (but the original curve will still be there) along the sheet. If this is a gravitational field and a gravity wave, that wave will propagate at the speed of light according to General Relativity.

I am not sure I am saying this very well.

141 posted on 06/25/2003 10:33:54 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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