[ExI] NASA space probe proves Einstein correct

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>... On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
Subject: [ExI] NASA space probe proves Einstein correct

>NASA space probe proves Einstein correct Thursday, 5 May 2011

>by Kerry Sheridan

>...WASHINGTON: Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the
force of their gravity, scientists said after a NASA probe confirmed two key
parts of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.   "Einstein
survives," chuckled Francis Everitt, Stanford University physicist and
principal investigator for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), one of the U.S. space
agency's longest running projects...


Woohoo!

By coincidence, I was looking for Gravity Probe B news just last week,
thinking the results were coming due any time now.  I have the privilege of
working on aspects of the project over 20 years ago.  Gravity Probe B is the
most complicated and technologically sophisticated spacecraft I ever saw.
The program has been around in some form for over 50 years.  Congrats to Dr.
Everitt for surviving to see this day, to Stanford, to Lockheed.

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