[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?

58008@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?

nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 months ago

Hey now. It’s all about perspective. If you think about it in terms of geological history or the history of the universe, the discovery pretty much just happened.