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Experimental Repeal of the Speed Limit for Gravitational, Electrodynamic, and Quantum Field Interactions

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General relativity has a geometric and a field interpretation. If angular momentum conservation is invoked in the geometric interpretation to explain experiments, the causality principle is violated. The field interpretation avoids this problem by allowing faster-than-light propagation of gravity in forward time. All existing experiments are in agreement with that interpretation. This implies the existence of real superluminal propagation and communication of particles and fields, free of causality problems. The introduction of real physical faster-than-light propagation into gravitation, electrodynamics and quantum theory has important consequences for physics.

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    Jean-Pierre Vigier

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Van Flandern, T., Vigier, JP. Experimental Repeal of the Speed Limit for Gravitational, Electrodynamic, and Quantum Field Interactions. Foundations of Physics 32, 1031–1068 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016530625645

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