Recent content by davek

Steve Carlip showed in his paper "Aberration and the Speed of Gravity" (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909087) that the aberration effect cancels out for static fields like this one. Isn't that a contradiction?

If one were to send two light beams around the equator east and west, would the Sagnac effect occur? I know Michelson-Gale-Pearson measured it, but in their experiment the two beams would each travel both directions in separate rectangles, so I wonder if the effect would be weaker/stronger. How...