----- Original Message ----- From: OrionWorks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 8:45 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:gravity = pdf
> Jonse sez: > > > For those who haven't seen it: > > > > "The Speed of Gravity What the Experiments Say" > > > > Tom Van Flandern, Meta Research > > > > [as published in Physics Letters A 250:1-11 (1998)] > > > > http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp > > > > hint: this is not a pdf file but gavity is pdf (pretty damn fast) > > > > From the report: > > "How can black holes have gravity when nothing can get out because > escape speed is greater than the speed of light?" > > Always wondered about that conundrum. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > > My answer without reference to general relativity: I begin by questioning the law of inertia from a naive or experiential perspective. Obviously inertia manifests itself during collision/contact between material bodies, However since a thrown ball travels in a arc contrary to the law of inertia AND since there is apparently no material action on the ball working to overcome the inertia of the ball, I contend the law of inertia simply does not apply to bodies moving freely, i.e. without material interaction. Instead material bodies have a natural propensity to accelerate towards each other. They contain, if you please, a spark of acceleration, whose magnitude and direction is affected (rather than effected) by the mere presence and relative proximity of other bodies. harry
