[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from four years ago.

One important consequence of the result is that it places constraints on theories of "brane worlds", which suggest the Universe has more spatial dimensions than the familiar three... [T]he assumption of light-speed gravity has come under pressure from brane world theories, which suggest there are extra spatial dimensions rolled up very small. Gravity could take a short cut through these extra dimensions and so appear to travel faster than the speed of light - without violating the equations of general relativity... Kopeikin... reworked the equations of general relativity to express the gravitational field of a moving body in terms of its mass, velocity and the speed of gravity. If you could measure the gravitational field of Jupiter, while knowing its mass and velocity, you could work out the speed of gravity. The opportunity to do this arose in September 2002, when Jupiter passed in front of a quasar that emits bright radio waves. Fomalont and Kopeikin combined observations from a series of radio telescopes across the Earth to measure the apparent change in the quasar's position as the gravitational field of Jupiter bent the passing radio waves.

Case closed! Einstein's assumptions used to prove Einstein's assumptions! :')

[SunkenCiv]

Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation
[Anti-Gravity!]
PhysOrg.com | 11 February 2006 | Staff
Posted on 02/11/2006 7:31:06 PM EST by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576777/posts

[Centurion2000]

Fomalont and Kopeikin combined observations from a series of radio telescopes across the Earth to measure the apparent change in the quasar's position as the gravitational field of Jupiter bent the passing radio waves.

So what was the measured speed of gravity in those experiments? Got the data handy?