2006-06-30 00:07:50 · 9 answers · asked by boringsadlife 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Gravity does not travel; it is a force that varies depending mostly on the size of the bodies in question.
2006-06-30 00:14:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get articles and abstracts and a journal from the Gravity Research Foundation. I had read one article on a gravity antena; and I thought that gravity particles had been detected, but I do not know if it is verified.
Gravity must travel at about the speed of light as far as I know. But light sources can be created, light suddently released. But gravity is always "flowing" from matter to matter, that is why it may seem always instantanious. Gravity is the medium of matter.
So velocity of gravitons is approximately 186,291.5 miles per second. Gravitons of course have both particle and wave properties.
(Of course the acceleration of an object at 10 meters from the surface of the earth is much greater 9.8 m/ sec^2 than from 3 miles high. At some point above the earth is it only 7 m/ sec^2, and so on. Then the rate or velocity of a falling object is different depending on where it is in its history of falling.)
2006-07-02 11:22:00 · answer #2 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends where you are in our Universe. However here on Earth gravity causes an object to fall at a speed of 32.2 feet per second every second. Out in space there is no gravity, there fore it cannot travel at any speed.
2006-07-06 21:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity does have a speed in which it travels. The current accepted theory is that of +-(1/4) the speed of light (c). This of coarse has never been proven BUT there are particles of gravity called gravitons. They exist as superlight particles like the theorized tachyons( which they theorize and have simulated could exceed the speed of light)
2006-06-30 00:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by j e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most current theories say that it travels at light speed. Since nobody has been able to detect gravity waves it's been impossible to actually verify but it SHOULD travel at C.
2006-06-30 00:14:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. However, things fall at a fixed rate of 10 meters per second. Regardless of their weight. Unless, of course, it is a feather or something that would be affected by wind currents. In a vacuum, everything would fall at the same rate.
2006-06-30 00:14:54 · answer #6 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it travels at the speed of light
2006-06-30 00:59:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faster than light
2006-07-06 21:17:08 · answer #8 · answered by 22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
?!
2006-07-06 23:46:55 · answer #9 · answered by IT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋