Kopeikin and Fomalont became the first two people to quantitatively measure the speed of gravity, one of the fundamental constants of nature. They found that gravity does move at the same speed as light.
I don't see any "loose ends" as you suggested. What loose ends are you referring to?
I don't see any "loose ends" as you suggested. What loose ends are you referring to?
I had read somewhere that nobody had ever detected a grav wave
Just because gravity waves haven't been measured yet doesn't mean that there are any loose ends.
The question being addressed related to the speed at which the effects of gravity could be felt (not necessarily gravity waves), and the article you yourself posted offered evidence that gravity is not instantaneous and does indeed propagate at the speed of light (which supports my original answer, thank you very I guess).
It's one thing to be hopelessly behind the latest info, but it's another to misrepresent the very point of the link you provided.
to misrepresent the very point of the link you provided.
Doubtless there's such a thing as a grav wave, and probably yes, it travels at velocity c. However the fact that it hasn't yet been detected is still a loose end
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Sat 27 Apr, 2013 12:39 am
@Hunter84,
It's the tide time continuum.
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
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