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The Fundamentals: Gravity

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The Effect of Gravity on the Curvature of Space Time

The lag between gravitational waves creating a pull from the sun's new position and the gravitational waves pulling from its old position is what changes that. Because it's like the sun is now saying, oh, I'm ahead a little bit and pulls a little bit forward on Mercury,. And this happens to all the planets. It was just one of the many ways that we were able to show that Einstein's general relativity and his understanding of gravity seems to seem by all of our tests so far Seems to be exactly the way Gravity works.

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