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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Gravity waves (Was: Galilean Electrodynamics)
- Message-ID: <98707@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:58:17 GMT
- References: <By1KK2.E1B@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
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- In article <By1KK2.E1B@well.sf.ca.us>, metares@well (Tom Van Flandern) writes:
- >[...] The new Taylor and Damour papers make it clear that the decay rate
- >cannot be solved for separately from the other parameters.
-
- I thought this was always clear.
-
- >[...] Getting the theoretical rate (if any) correct has been the
- >subject of much controversy over the past 20 years. Einstein himself
- >wavered on the question of whether or not GR predicted gravitational
- >radiation. It appears that today's theoreticians are still wavering.
-
- You're missing something very very basic. The fact that the basic
- theoretical prediction and the minimally sophisticated measurement
- interpretation agree is strong mutual support.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-