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A lack of gravitational waves would mean information can travel infinitely fast, a Lorentz violation. There's no evidence in QM (or anywhere, really) that this

A lack of gravitational waves would mean information can travel infinitely fast, a Lorentz violation. There's no evidence in QM (or anywhere, really) that this is true.

Manishearth 11y ago
We usually build up our QM models assuming Lorentz invariance, so this is somewhat a self fulfilling prophecy.
cdelsolar 11y ago
But why do they have to be "waves"?
- hugh4 11y ago
  Ok, assume gravitational influence travels at the speed of light. Now imagine you pick up a heavy object (the Earth, say) and wave it back and forth. Can you see how the spreading gravitational influence manifests itself as a wave?
  - cdelsolar 11y ago
    Thanks, this helped.
lurcio 11y ago
I'd rather take evidence from observation than from QM: let theory burn, as the current paradigm surely will if science ever trumps politics and regains its senses.
- drjesusphd 11y ago
  Lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking. You'd have to do a lot better than that to disprove the most successful scientific theory of all time.