The speed of gravity - What the experiments say

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 250, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Van Flandern, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberration; Causality; Experiments; Faster than light; Gravitation; Relativity; Speed

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITATION; SPEED;

CAUSALITY; CAUSALITY PRINCIPLE; LOWER LIMITS; SPACE-TIME ANALOGY; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 0347417033     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00650-1     Document Type: Article

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