Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!roy From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Propagation of gravity Message-ID: <433@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 15:26:35 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.433 Posted: Sat Dec 15 15:26:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 04:27:43 EST References: <85@decwrl.UUCP> <10800012@uiucdcsb.UUCP>, <162@talcott.UUCP> <384@ukma.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 15 > One might ask whether the "fabric of space" has the same same > properties as a piece of cloth, that is, if you pull on one edge, > does the disturbance propagate or does it affect the entire sheet > at once? Actually, the distubance of pulling on one edge of a piece of cloth DOES propagate through the cloth. In fact, it propagates at precisely the speed of sound through cloth. After all, that is EXACTLY what sound is: a disturbance in a physical medium. -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy Who me? I'm not even a REAL modo, I'm only a quasi-modo.