Tribute to Tom Van Flandern

摘要

Tom Van Flandern published several excellent articles refuting with experimental evidence claims that gravity traveled at the speed of light or some slower speed. Viewing mass elements as discrete and bounded particles, he remained unable to explain how momentum could be transferred across a vacuum. Following is an opinionated review of his work on the instantaneity of gravity published on his web site metaresearch.org. Van Flandern passed away January 9, 2009.