Quote (011011100101110111 @ Tue, Jan 20 2009, 08:03pm)
gravity isn't an "instantanous force"
if the sun were to disappear, you would have a ripple effect of spacetime@ the speed of light. so we wouldn't experience it being gone until after 8 minutes.
i think
no the light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach earch (1 AU). gravitational effect is indeed instantaneous. faster then the speed of light, something einstein never thought possible.
http://pm1.bu.edu/~tt/qcl/pdf/watson_a1997607e0a08.pdf <<good arcticle about entangled particles affecting one another at a distance instantaneously.
This post was edited by juliusjuice on Jan 21 2009 02:54pm