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- From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
- Subject: Re: Gravity waves (Was: Galilean Electrodynamics)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:27:30 GMT
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- Tom Van Flandern writes:
- # But the gravity wave term is not uniquely separable from other
- #parameters in the solutions (namely, periastron motion and the bending/delay
- #term).
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- But the gravity wave term is non uniquely separable in the same way
- that the perihelion advance is not uniquely separable.
-
- Since Beckmann (and 99.99 percent of all scientists) accept that the
- perihelion advance is a sucessful test of GR, by the same logic the
- grav radiation is also a sucessful test of GR, but a test that
- Beckmann's theory does not pass.
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- # I realize that Greg was quoting conventional wisdom. Is it time to
- #alter the conventional wisdom about gravity waves and binary pulsars?
-
- Not on the basis if a single paper.
-
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