If it didn’t travel, it wouldn’t take 8 minutes to stop right?
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cuerdo@lemmy.world 10 months agoThe gravity does travel, the gravity is.
Alk@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
cuerdo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If the mass vanishes, then the gravity would also vanish, at the same time.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
False. If the mass vanished via magic, the effect would ripple out at the speed of light. Source, gravity waves which move at the speed of light.
cuerdo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But vanishing is magic, it goes against the laws of physics, so you could apply any fictional logic
davidgro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Changes in the gravitational field definitely travel, and do so at the speed of light.
Look up LIGO