<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>[123...]: About gravitons: if they are all traveling at the same speed and a planet like Pluto is moving, wouldn't the gravitons slow it down to a dead stop eventually?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Yes. The absence of drag by gravitons at a detectable level is one of the experimental constraints on the model that allows us to set limits on graviton mass, speed, and (absorption or scattering) cross-sectional areas. See the Slabinski article in <i>Pushing Gravity</i>.
BTW, presumably gravitons have a Maxwellian speed distribution, much like air molecules. We speak of a single "speed of gravity" only as a statistical average. -|Tom|-
