Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From news@hp.fciencias.unam.mx Fri Mar 29 08:58:02 1996
From: Graeme A Stewart <graeme@tonatiuh.igeofcu.unam.mx>
Organization: Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM
Subject: Re: A Q RE: Gravity

Hmm. OK, the ship (or anything else) wouldn't feel the gravitational
pull instantly, and you would definetely have to wait the light
travel time. I think that you'd probably get a nice bunch of
gravitational waves, rather like dropping a metal ball onto
the "rubber mat" which is used as a GR analogue, it would "bounce"
around a bit, before setteling down to a stable curvature. These
gravy waves might give you some interesting additional effects.

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