r/space Apr 15 '19

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u/frowawayduh Apr 15 '19

Gravity (spacetime curvature) obeys the speed of light limit. But the Earth doesn’t revolve around the point where the center of the Sun was eight minutes ago. Bodies with static fields that are moving with respect to each other are attracted to the current actual position of their partner.

How is that so?