>>11803931If gravity traveled at the slow speed of light the Earth would be pulled to where the Sun appears in the sky and not the Sun’s real position in space. This would result in a slingshot effect and toss planets out of the solar system in short order. This does not happen.
Observations of close binary stars where the effect would be extreme and quickly noticeable show that gravity must operate at a speed in excess of 20 billion times the speed of light to prevent spiraling orbits. Einstein’s speed limit of light is evidently not a universal speed limit. The Sun and the Earth have instantaneous information about their locations. Of course, quantum experiments have proven that subatomic particles “know” about each other instantly at great distances. But rather than state the obvious, meaningless terms like “entanglement” and “non-locality” are used to remain politically correct to the dogma of relativity.
This simple example shows why we should not put blind faith in experts. Their shared beliefs have repeatedly held back progress and cost us dearly. Einstein’s artificial speed limit has delayed understanding of quantum mechanics and cosmology for 100 years.
So if the LIGO signals /were/ caused by a gravitational disturbance both detectors should have received it at the same instant. They didn’t, so the signal has nothing to do with gravity.
Then what could the signal mean?
Phys.org reports, According to David Shoemaker of MIT, the leader of the Advanced LIGO team, it looked just like physicists thought it would. “The waveform that we can calculate based on Einstein’s theory of 1916 matches exactly what we observed in 2015,” he said.
>“It looked like a chirp, it started at low frequencies—20 or 30 hertz, that’s like the lowest note on a bass guitar, sweeping very rapidly up over just a fraction of a second… up to 150 hertz or so, sort of near middle C on a piano.”