[Physicist]

The same argument could be applied to the force of electromagnetism, but electromagnetism conclusively propagates at the speed of light.

Van Flandern also now insists that electromagnetism propagates at infinite speed. (Not electromagnetic waves, mind you, but the field...whatever the devil that means.) It's nonsense, but he's forced into it by his own (mistaken) geometrical argument.

Presumably this frees gravitational waves (as opposed to fields) to propagate at c.

[Aric2000]

I always hoped that gravity would be the one thing that we could use to travel faster then light, once we could control it, then we could use the gravitational force itself to travel between the stars.

Oh well, my dreams are now blown away...

Thanks, thanks a lot!! ;)

[RightWhale]

Van Flandern also now insists

Is he insisting now? This is not good news. Insistence could be a symptom of underlying progressive spookiness. That's right, he could soon be a candidate for kookville.

[Aric2000]

What theory are you gonna come up with next?

Evolution?

Then my life won't be worth living......;)

OK, OK, I'll be good now, I promise!! ....

[FreeTheHostages]

An equally interesting question is how quickly one stops reading the posts of certain obtuse individuals who curiously stalk these science threads and post silly things.

I wonder if one could even measure the speed with which one such as yourself passes over such obtuse posts.

It may be that a trillion monkeys on a trillion typewriters might somehow lead to the production of Hamlet, but Free Republic seems like a poor place to test the theory, no? ;)