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I don't think I've phrased this well at all. My point is this: We should feel the affects of an object's position relative to us in location A slightly before (that is, if location A is closer to the Object) than in location B. That is to say, the "gravity waves" or whatever you want to call...

You're right, to disprove the speeds being equal, it wouldn't need miles and miles. But that gives us a large margin by which we could measure something: let's say we measured the delay between our 7900 miles to be .00002 seconds. While gravity is now established as far faster than light, it...

I was under the impression that gravity affects magnetic fields.

As for orbiting bodies, that is what has been tried before, and failed... or at least, it's success is debated. The quickest reference for this I could find is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity#Experimental_measurement.3F . There is also a bit about it in this very forum...

Well, that's the question, isn't it? If it's instantaneous, as in Newtonian mechanics, then there wouldn't be a measurable delay. But in relativity, it is assumed to be equal to the speed of light. So while my experiment wouldn't determine it to be instantaneous, it could determine it to be...

So I was sitting around, thinking of nothing in general, when the idea struck me that to me gravity seems instantaneous. Realizing this is rather unlikely (many people at one time would have regarded light as instantaneous as well), I googled speed of gravity. Well, it seems the only experiments...