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I have been trying to conceptualize how a gravity field is formed.
If gravity was a wave that was emitting from the host mass then it should lag behind as a mass moves but a gravitational field seems to arrive with it host mass and the gravitational field is fully formed.
It is as if the gravitational field has an existence of its own.
That is the gravitational field is like a standing wave which has a velocity identical to its host mass.
If the gravitational field has energy it must also have a rest mass however small it may be.
The field should therefore follow a free floating path just as its host mass does.
I use this point of view to escape having to explain how the gravitational field (curved space time) develops instantaneously after the mass moves to a new location.
My line of reasoning is that the gravitational field has all the properties of mass and therefore a gravitational field and its mass will follow identical ( or almost identical paths ) arriving in a new location together and that the gravitational field does not have to be redeveloped from the host mass as a source at each location.
Is my line of reasoning correct or is there another view point I am not aware of?
I guess I have a problem with how gravity seems to transfer information instantaneously.
Duane Eddy
If gravity was a wave that was emitting from the host mass then it should lag behind as a mass moves but a gravitational field seems to arrive with it host mass and the gravitational field is fully formed.
It is as if the gravitational field has an existence of its own.
That is the gravitational field is like a standing wave which has a velocity identical to its host mass.
If the gravitational field has energy it must also have a rest mass however small it may be.
The field should therefore follow a free floating path just as its host mass does.
I use this point of view to escape having to explain how the gravitational field (curved space time) develops instantaneously after the mass moves to a new location.
My line of reasoning is that the gravitational field has all the properties of mass and therefore a gravitational field and its mass will follow identical ( or almost identical paths ) arriving in a new location together and that the gravitational field does not have to be redeveloped from the host mass as a source at each location.
Is my line of reasoning correct or is there another view point I am not aware of?
I guess I have a problem with how gravity seems to transfer information instantaneously.
Duane Eddy