Re: electromagnetic literacy

["John S. Denker" <jsd@AV8N.COM>]

On 09/13/2003 10:28 AM, Marc Kossover wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that the effects of gravity propagate at c,

Yes.

> although no experiments had yet shown this.

No really direct experiments, although the data from
PSR1913+16 is consistent with and usually attributed
to damping by gravitational waves.

  http://www.nobel.se/physics/educational/poster/1993/discovery.html
  http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/psr1913.htm

> In particular, I believe that
> the work at LIGO and other large interferometers was trying to test this
> hypothesis.

Yes.