Relativity Passes Absolute Test: Exacting research finds Einstein was exactly right

Discover ^ | June 22, 2007 | Stephen Ornes

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Nearly three years ago, NASA's oft-canceled $750 million Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission finally shot into space with one goal -- to quantify Einstein's predictions from Earth's orbit. Earlier this year, at the meeting of the American Physics Society, principal investigator Francis Everitt delivered the first results: Gravity Probe B has verified Einstein's theory to within 1 percent... Einstein's theory predicts that the axes should shift by a tiny amount -- 0.0018 degree -- under the influence of Earth's pull on space-time. After 18 months of data analysis, Everitt and his team measured the axial shift to within 1 percent of Einstein's prediction. Everitt, a Stanford physicist who has spent more than 40 years on the project, says the results are sweet indeed.

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I fall into the same trap many others do, thinking others are familiar with the things I’m familiar with. Quantum Mechanics is simply beyond you. You’d have to be a graduate physicist to really understand what I’m talking about. As with 99.999% of the world, you’re familiar with the Classical Mechanical world you’ve grown up with, QM is so weird that it’s just too much for you. And yet it is perfectly true that your CM world is an ILLUSION just like a movie is an ILLUSION. We QMers know that only too well...