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minus-squaregerbler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoWhat I wanna know is if gravitational waves travel at the speed of light all the time or are they influenced by media like light.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI’m 0% an expert in this, but I think they move at light speed all the time. Light is “affected” by mass only indirectly, since the light travels in a straight line through local space but space itself is curved by the mass.
What I wanna know is if gravitational waves travel at the speed of light all the time or are they influenced by media like light.
I’m 0% an expert in this, but I think they move at light speed all the time. Light is “affected” by mass only indirectly, since the light travels in a straight line through local space but space itself is curved by the mass.