Berkeley Lab Physicist Challenges Speed of Gravity Claim

"Albert Einstein may have been right that gravity travels at the same speed as light but, contrary to a claim made earlier this year, the theory has not yet been proven. A scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) says the announcement by two scientists, widely reported this past January, about the speed of gravity was wrong.

Stuart Samuel, a participating scientist with the Theory Group of Berkeley Lab's Physics Division, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, has demonstrated that an "ill-advised" assumption made in the earlier claim led to an unwarranted conclusion.

 

"Einstein may be correct about the speed of gravity but the experiment in question neither confirms nor refutes this," says Samuel. "In effect, the experiment was measuring effects associated with the propagation of light, not the speed of gravity."

 

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