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Old 22-March-2008, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by EvilEye View Post
If the sun were to suddenly disappear from existence, we would go dark at the same moment that our orbit would fail.

There is no "propogation" so to speak.... it doesn't travel.

It just takes that long for the "effect" to be noticeable.
EvilEye. The 24 hour diurnal oscillation of the solar neutrino flux, seen at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, would cease also at the speed of light travel, when the gravitational effect was observed. No sun, no solar neutrinos. pete
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