Einstein was right: space and time bend

[The Helper]

Ninety years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m Nasa probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. Now the race is on to show that the other half of relativity also works

Under his name in the Oxford English Dictionary is the simple definition: genius. Yet for decades physicists have been asking the question: did Albert Einstein get it wrong? After half a century, seven cancellations and $700m, a mission to test his theory about the universe has finally confirmed that the man was a mastermind - or at least half proved it.

The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.

But this - what is referred to as the 'geodetic' effect - is only half of the theory. The other, 'frame-dragging', stated that as the world spins it drags the fabric of the universe behind it.

Read more about it here.

 

[Marduke]

$700m more and maybe it will become the Law of Relativity

 

[ReVolver]

Oh that will be just great! lol I whole new chapter for everyones science book -_- xD

Ch. 1 Law of Physics

Ch. 2 Law of Relativity

 

[emjlr3]

700M and for what? what good came of this...nothing...just like the millions spent to let everyone know that pluto is no longer a planet....

 

[Ninva]

Oh, they just want to prove every religion in the world false. Please don't ask me any questions about why would they want to do that. xD I think it'll make some sense once you think about it.

(Not saying evolution was meant to destory Christianity, but I do think some attend to do that. )

 

[Rinpun]

Hm? Relativity doesn't kill any religions--except maybe Hinduism, but everyone should know that hogwash doesn't make any sense in context with all the other laws.

Well, at least it'll be the Law of Relativity in textbooks now. It's probably one of the only complicated theories to be so swiftly made into a law.

Evolution is still a theory, and men are spending tons of millions, maybe even billions, to try to prove it. Scientists are wasting away and finding more suggestions, but no direct conclusions. We need to know how complicated systems evolved out of microbes. You can't suggest they did until you look at how. Looking at slightly updated bone structures in dirt suggests the likelihood of changing over that period, but only as much as the suggestion that animal X and Y coexisted until animal X couldn't live anymore and decayed into the dirt and animal Y continued to exist for some millions of more years. What you need to prove is to suggest the little changes the microbes could make, in a reasonable process, to turn into a huge multi being. Blood clotting desperately needs to be explained. That and we still don't know how life appeared out of chemicals. Take a big explosion and you still don't have life. We haven't got life to spontaneously appear out of a mixture of chemicals; we can only reproduce cells to get the effect.

 

[emjlr3]

any suggestions on where to start...lol