Henri Poincaré1905
Poincaré argues that changes in a gravitational field should propagate at the speed of light, anticipating the later relativistic concept of gravitational radiation.
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Poincaré argues that changes in a gravitational field should propagate at the speed of light, anticipating the later relativistic concept of gravitational radiation.
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