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Nature 421, 198 (16 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421198a

Gravity experiment sparks spat between physicists

Geoff Brumfiel

Physicists are falling out over a high-profile claim that the speed at which gravity propagates closely matches the speed of light.The row began after two researchers said that they had measured the 'speed of gravity' for the first time and found that, like the speed of light, it is finite.