64 questions linked to/from How fast does gravity propagate?
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### Does gravity travel at the speed of light? [duplicate]

Whenever I did calculations in high school physics involving gravity, it was either "a ball falling to the earth" type scenario, or a basic measurement of the gravitational attraction between two ...
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### Is speed of gravitational waves constant? [duplicate]

Is the speed of gravitational waves constant in all inertial frames? If so, why isn't this included as one of the postulates of special relativity?
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### Does gravity spread instantly? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The speed of gravity I am real noob in physics, so sorry if this question is really stupid. Today in a casual conversation I claimed that if the sun were to instantly ...
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### Can Information Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light? [duplicate]

Many believe that nothing can travel faster than speed of light, not even information. Personally, i think theoretically information can. Consider this following imaginary experiment: Imagine we are ...
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### How quickly does gravity extend from created mass? [duplicate]

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid or off-topic question. Since Energy can be converted into matter according to $E=mc^2$, how fast does it take for the gravity of that new matter to extend ...
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### Does gravity act instantaneously? [duplicate]

some one states that the earth would travel in it path for 8 min if the sun vanished. The equations of gravity show the Moon would crash into the Earth and the Earth would head for Mars the instant ...
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### Gravitational Effect Versus the Speed of Light [duplicate]

If, for some reason, the sun were to suddenly disappear altogether, I would like to know the following: would we "feel" it first (i.e. being thrown into outer space due to no longer having anything ...
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### Will we feel the gravity of a star 10 light years away for the next 10 years if, somehow, it vanishes today from its position? [duplicate]

I was watching a relativity video, and although I am not sure, I felt that it was trying to tell that the effect of gravitation of a body is instantaneous, in the sense that a sudden change in the ...
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### Consequences of inverse square law with vast distances (Gravity); (in addition, is light speed broken)? [duplicate]

As is well known, the gravitational force between two masses is dependent on the spatial distance between them. Therefore, even at vast distances, the masses exert equal and opposite forces on one ...
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### Is gravity instantaneous? [duplicate]

I want to know if (hypothetically) a star appears out of nowhere at a certain distance (say 20 light seconds) away from me, how long will it take for me to get the feel of it's gravity? Will I know it ...
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### speed of gravitational waves [duplicate]

Do gravitational waves have a certain speed? Is it the speed of light or infinite, or am I misunderstanding what a gravitational wave is? I think it is a ripple in spacetime caused by interactions ...
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### Time taken for gravity of a distant object to interact with a newly created particle? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The speed of gravity Does gravity travel at the speed of light? Imagine there is a large mass $m_1$ (e.g. a star) 1 light-year away from us. It is stable, stationary ...
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### Speed/direction of gravity for a moving source [duplicate]

Consider the Earth, and a bowling ball held 186,000 miles (1 light second) above it. When the ball is released, it will start to fall vertically downwards towards the Earth. Now consider the case if ...