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To: MineralMan

I've not been able to find anything specific (admittedly I didn't search very deeply), but Special Relativity implies that gravity, like everything else, is limited by the speed of light. According to general relativity, gravity propigates at lightspeed. It's hard to get a lot of solid information given that gravity is far less understood than other more well-established scientific theories, like evolution.


134 posted on 01/03/2006 2:28:21 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio; MineralMan
It's hard to get a lot of solid information given that gravity is far less understood than other more well-established scientific theories, like evolution.

And where are the anti-science types, squawking that we teach their Biblical notions to counter this?

Surely, if they were intellectually consistent, they would wish to have the "gaps" in gravitational theory pointed out to students....

136 posted on 01/03/2006 2:31:07 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Dimensio
Special Relativity implies that gravity, like everything else, is limited by the speed of light.

I've heard this, too, and not being a physicist, I do have one comment. How can the propagation of gravity be measured? I mean, since the beginning of the universe, all matter would be exerting some kind of gravitational force on all other matter. As the universe expanded, and matter became heterogeneously dispersed, the same gravitational forces would still be present, but their magnitudes would be different. Since, according to relativity, matter cannot move faster than c, then could there be a way to test if it propagates faster than c? Could you have a mass osscilating in space and measure the effect of its gravity at some distance? Then modulate that oscillation and then measure a) the time to notice the oscillation at the point of measurement and/or measure the phase shift of the oscillation at the point of measurement? Just thinking oout loud.

433 posted on 01/04/2006 9:10:10 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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