You are usually pretty good at explaining things to those of us outside the hard sciences, but the speed of gravity? Speed of light OK, but what is the speed of gravity?
Robert L. Schrag North Carolina State University Raleigh, N.C.
An object with mass creates a gravitational field around itself. Imagine that the object moves; then, the strength of its field everywhere in space changes.
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