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Is Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? NASA's Gravity Probe B may soon provide the answer

12/13/2005 02:11AM

Is Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time? NASA's Gravity Probe B may soon provide the answer

Almost 90 years after Albert Einstein first postulated his general theory of relativity, Physisists have finished collecting data that will put his theory to a new and different kind of experimental test. NASA's Gravity Probe B, orbiting at an altitude of 400-miles directly over the poles, will measure two important effects: 1)how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth and 2) how the Earth's rotation drags space-time around with it. These effects, if indeed they can be measured, have far-reaching implications for the nature of matter and the structure of the Universe.


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  • Jef [Jef Spalding]
  • 12/13/2005 08:25AM
I have been receiving e-mail Gravity probe B updates since its inception and have never really found out exactly how those four precision gyros affixed to a star in the constellation Pegasus could actually measure up the space time warp created by earth. I have to give thanks once more to Guy Pirro for explaining this highly technical experiment so clearly.