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Relativity Passes Absolute Test: Exacting research finds Einstein was exactly right
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| June 22, 2007
| Stephen Ornes
Posted on 07/04/2007 4:17:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at discovermagazine.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: einstein; framedragging; gravityprobeb; stringtheory
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That's exactly right, meaning "verified Einstein's theory to within 1 percent". ;')
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posted on
07/04/2007 4:17:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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07/04/2007 4:18:11 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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07/04/2007 4:18:53 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
More government money wasted. What do we weed need NASA and these hundreds of other Government agencies for? I’ve seen plenty of global warming propaganda complete with NASA satellite pictures etc. coming out of NASA. Who are these bureaucrats accountable to? Who elected them? Where in the Constitution is NASA?
Plus Einstien was wrong on many things . He didn’t buy Quantum Theory “God does not play dice with the universe” . And so Einstien couldn’t have been more wrong because Quantum theory is the basis for much of our electronic technology. Also Einstein was a pacifist socialist. Socialism has never worked. So I am no fan of any Socialist.
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posted on
07/04/2007 4:27:54 PM PDT
by
rurgan
(socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/04/2007 4:28:27 PM PDT
by
Boundless
(Legacy Media is hazardous to your mental health)
To: SunkenCiv
Yeah, sure he’s got it right in the neighborhood, but what about when it’s tested ‘way out there’? How will he do against dark matter and dark energy, then where will his lambda be?
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posted on
07/04/2007 4:30:45 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
To: rurgan
When I first read about this probe proposal — about ten years ago — there were plenty of scientists opposed to funding this remarkably expensive experiment. One summed it up nicely — said that if the probe failed to confirm frame-dragging, there wouldn’t be any way to repeat the experiment, and no one would believe it anyway, and that if it confirmed it, it would be irrelevant, because everyone already believed frame-dragging was real. :’D
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07/04/2007 4:31:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: MHGinTN
Never a delta or a lambda be.
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07/04/2007 4:32:34 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
That's exactly right, meaning "verified Einstein's theory to within 1 percent". ;')Precisely. It's only 1 percent off. Who says it's all relative anyway? :-)
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07/04/2007 4:34:11 PM PDT
by
Vision Thing
(Z-Visa? Z-Visa? I don't need no stinkin' Z-Visa.)
To: SunkenCiv
:^) Happy Fourth ... In God We Trust.
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07/04/2007 4:40:20 PM PDT
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MHGinTN
(You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
To: MHGinTN
Right back atcha, MHGinTN!
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07/04/2007 4:51:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Vision Thing
Whenever cousins marry? ;’)
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07/04/2007 4:51:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
What a relief. I was really worried about this. Now I can relax, almost completely, 99%.
To: SunkenCiv
A deceptively simple test. Good. Now on to quintessence.
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posted on
07/05/2007 5:09:22 AM PDT
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Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
I’m glad they’ve settled this, I’d wondered for years why pictures on my walls never hang straight.
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07/05/2007 6:59:23 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: samtheman
It’s like a $500 million lullaby, eh? ;’)
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07/05/2007 7:00:02 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I detect your tongue-in-cheek Mister! LOL
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07/05/2007 1:20:12 PM PDT
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Daffynition
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To: rurgan
The mis-assumption is that gravity travels at c. It is well known that the sun’s gravitational influence on the earth isn’t 8 minutes c-retarded, instead it’s instantaneous; wanna know why?
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posted on
07/05/2007 1:48:22 PM PDT
by
timer
(n/0=n=nx0)
To: timer
Yes, I would very much like to.
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posted on
07/05/2007 1:52:54 PM PDT
by
patton
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: timer
Yes I'd like to know why.
What do you think of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle . do you dismiss it like Einstien did?
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07/05/2007 4:24:07 PM PDT
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rurgan
(socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
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