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tokipin on Dec 2, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seth's Blog: Gravity is just a theory

i think gravity 'waves' travel at the speed of light

KirinDave on Dec 2, 2008 [–]

You're right. As far as anyone can tell, gravity propagates at the speed of light.

We're just not really sure what is propagating, or why. LHC will hopefully finally give us some useful observations on the subject.

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