Berkeley Lab Physicist Challenges Speed of Gravity Claim 18 Jun
2003 (Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Public
Information Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lynn Yarris, (510) 486-5375, email@example.com BERKELEY, CA --
Albert Einstein may have been right that gravity travels at the
same speed as light but, contrary to a claim made earlier this
year, the theory has not yet been proven. A scientist at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) says the
announcement by two scientists, widely reported this past
January, about the speed of gravity was wrong. Stuart Samuel, a
participating scientist with the Theory Group of Berkeley Lab's
Physics Division, in a paper published in Physical Review
Letters, has demonstrated that an "ill-advised" assumption made
in the earlier claim led to an unwarranted conclusion. "Einstein
may be correct about the speed of gravity but the experiment in
question neither confirms nor refutes this," says Samuel. "In
effect, the experiment was meas