[ExI] NASA space probe proves Einstein correct

[John Grigg]

A news article excerpt:
by Kerry Sheridan
Agence France-Presse


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.

The physics experiment was more than four decades in the making, and finally
launched in 2004.

The Earth in honey
"In Einstein's universe, space and time are warped by gravity. The Earth
distorts the space around it very slightly by its gravity," he said,
explaining the Jewish physicist's theory devised nearly 100 years ago, long
before the technology existed to test it.
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Why does the article mention Einstein was Jewish?  What does that have to do
with anything???

John
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