Does gravity attract instantaneously?

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for example, if a star theoretically came into existence 10 light minutes away, would we feel its pull instantaneously? or would it take 10 minutes for us to feel its pull?
 
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It would take 10 minutes for us to feel the pull. Changes in gravity propagate at the speed of light. The easiest way to see this is by linearizing Einstein's equations of general relativity, so that the metric is a flat metric plus a small perturbation. Then it's easy to show that such perturbations travel at the speed of light and are called gravitational waves.
 
Conservation of energy and momentum is an essential ingredient in general relativity. Any question that postulates a mass that suddenly appears or disappears violates the theory, and there is no answer to what will happen as a result.

Sudden changes can occur that conserve energy and momentum, for example the sun could hypothetically (!) explode and split in two, one half going north, the other south. In such a case the change in the gravitational field will propagate at the speed of light, and we will feel the difference with an eight minute delay.
 
Is not acubierre drive, though hypothetical, related with gravitational waves. So are gravitational waves not supposed to not have any limit.
Are gravitational waves different from constant fluctuation of structure of space-time continium.
I a novice and have no knowledge even of E.F.E. Let alone solving it. But just ideas.
Forgive me if i am wrong.
 
phyzguy said:
It would take 10 minutes for us to feel the pull. Changes in gravity propagate at the speed of light. The easiest way to see this is by linearizing Einstein's equations of general relativity, so that the metric is a flat metric plus a small perturbation. Then it's easy to show that such perturbations travel at the speed of light and are called gravitational waves.

that was my intuition because otherwize mass could propagate info faster than c
 

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