Ok, this is something I have been thinking on a while, and thought I would post my ramblings here.
Here is a Hypography Article that is related to this.
Speed of Gravity Researcher Stands Behind Theory
And another link related.
Speed of Gravity Measured for First Time
Ok, Einstein's theories say that the Speed of Gravity should equal the speed of light, right? This recent experiment puts forth evidence supporting this. That's all cool, but here's a twist/paradox I've thought of.
A Black Hole is a point in space with such a high density and gravity well that not even light traveling at 186,000MPS can escape. Ok, now for a second lets us imagine that gravity is not a curvature of space, but rather a force, possibly created by the theorized graviton particle. If light cannot escape a Black Hole, and the Speed of Gravity does = the Speed of Light. How could the Gravity escape if it could not travel faster than the speed of light? And since the speed of light is the ultimate barrier, it couldn't escape.
And I'll throw the Varying Speed of Light (VSL) theory in too. It theorizes that in a black hole light does not move at all, thus the speed limit is zero. However, if the gravity could not "escape" then the black hole could not exist in the first place. You can see that this is a looping paradox, just like time-travel. The only way around it is that gravity should operate on a completely different set of rules (which is true in part, this being the problem to creating a grand unified theory).
Have more thoughts on this, but it has been over 37 hours since I've slept, I'll post later.
Noah
