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Old 10-02-2010, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexN View Post
Also - Making the assumption that the speed of gravity = C in an experiment designed to measure the speed of gravity seems a little odd. If you're going to assume the speed is C from the onset, why then carry out the experiment..
Well, this is how science works..
First you make assumptions (that is hypothesis) , then you do some calculations based on those assumptions (that is theory) , then you measure the outcome (this is experiment).
If the outcome of experiment confirms calculation results, theory is correct.
If not, theory is not valid.

BTW, radio waves travel exactly at speed of light (in vacuum.. because they are also electromagnetic radiation, as well as visible light, x rays, gamma rays etc ).
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