Speed of gravity

By timothy k istian soholt ·

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In reply to #5234 Re: speed of gravity by Adrian Hurt Replies:
PAVEWAY (address lost due to overzealous editing) writes:

> PS.....    Gravity and Gravity waves....?   'how fast does gravity go?'
> if there is such a thing as a gravity wave  could someone tell me what they
> do and how fast they go?

[email removed] (Scott S. Kellogg) replies:

> According to the seminar on gravitiation I sat through,
> gravity propogates at the speed of light.

Are you sure? I thought that gravity propagated instantaneously. As
far as I know, they're still working on finding a gravity wave/particle.
If they do, it'll be a big step towards the "Grand Unified Theory"
that theoretical physicists get all starry-eyed about.

- -- Tim Soholt ([email removed])