The article "The Speed of Gravity - Repeal of the Speed Limit" says "[a binary pulsar experiment] places the strongest lower limit to the speed of gravity: 2 x 10^10 x c." It tackles the Special Relativity objection mentioned in another reply.
The article "Possible New Properties of Gravity" goes even further with it. It talks about the orbital effect you mentioned as a specific example right away. It might be a little bit easier to understand than the article above. It dives head-first into what some of the observable consequences are--and that discussion is what makes it much more believable to me. It's what moves him from the "just another crackpot" bucket to the "if he's a crackpot, he's one with a convincing case" bucket.
I'd like to think Sun didn't tweak their internal revision numbers to mirror product version numbers.
Indeed, if you do a uname -a on a Solaris 7 box, it'll tell you that it's running version 5.7--since the internal version number scheme remained unchanged even after the big marketing rename of what would have been SunOS 5.x to Solaris 2.x many years ago.
I wonder what's going to happen with it once Solaris 10 hits the streets, though...
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I just recently stumbled across Metaresearch.org's speed of gravity page.
The article "The Speed of Gravity - Repeal of the Speed Limit" says "[a binary pulsar experiment] places the strongest lower limit to the speed of gravity: 2 x 10^10 x c." It tackles the Special Relativity objection mentioned in another reply.
The article "Possible New Properties of Gravity" goes even further with it. It talks about the orbital effect you mentioned as a specific example right away. It might be a little bit easier to understand than the article above. It dives head-first into what some of the observable consequences are--and that discussion is what makes it much more believable to me. It's what moves him from the "just another crackpot" bucket to the "if he's a crackpot, he's one with a convincing case" bucket.
Indeed, if you do a uname -a on a Solaris 7 box, it'll tell you that it's running version 5.7--since the internal version number scheme remained unchanged even after the big marketing rename of what would have been SunOS 5.x to Solaris 2.x many years ago.
I wonder what's going to happen with it once Solaris 10 hits the streets, though...
With dittos from me!