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Re:Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly? by eyelidlessness on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:35PM (#25474475)
I’m confused by the question, possibly due to misunderstanding something fundamental in the basic physics. But I’m gonna explain my confusion anyway because it might be an opportunity for me (and maybe others) to learn.

I would assume that all of the forces have to be delayed. Being a force, inherently in relation to some other thing, there’s a transfer that has to occur for the force to interact. That has to travel through space. Even in my (admittedly lay) understanding that we don’t have a full explanation of gravity, I would assume it’s subject to those same basic (spatial) principles.

Is that assumption way off base?

Re:Why Doesn’t Gravity Happen Instantly? by abdullahkhalids on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:40PM (#25474499)
Yes. As far as we know gravitational influences are locally limited by the speed of light.