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Well I have been thinking, about Bert's mention of the words indicating a speed greater than C and about Al's observation that perhaps a minor adjustment of G may help. Looking at something as huge as Able 2029 some ( I recall half a billion light years across) maybe the solution is to give gravity a speed greater than C in fact I (instant). Take a long rod say 10 mts hold it in the centre and wobble it, the force takes time to travel its lenght to produce the wobble.. When one considers that Abel 2029 and really any spiral galaxy for that matter do not seem to show a wobble as it were one must ask how can this be so. My point is that if gravity travells at C one would expect that galaxies would not hold together, it is a case of the right hand would not know what the left is doing, and in the case of Abel 2029 the hands are half a billion years away from each other. Galaxies present as rigid sticks which seem to act as one unit and show little evidence that messages of gravity within take many many centuries to reach other regions within.
I am not trying to suggest this as a fact because my gravity rain idea needs C it is a dead duck if gravity acts instanly... the idea is beyond belief but is it not curious that galaxies present as a single unit where every part knows what the other parts are doing.
Just a thought not science and I am not eating red frogs.
alex
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