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Re: Einstein was right - again! (Satellite observations of Black Holes confirm frame-dragging effect 80 years after prediction)

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Why are you posting news articles that were written on November 6, 1997?

6586 days ago
941 weeks ago
216 months ago

almost 20 years ago???






Sam Wormley wrote:
> 
> Einstein was right - again! (Satellite observations of Black Holes
> confirm frame-dragging effect 80 years after prediction)
> > http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1997/ast06nov97_1/
> 
> > November 6, 1997: The next time you feel like you're barely dragging
> > along, blame relativity. You'll be stretching the point, but it
> > appears that Einstein was right: space and time get pulled out of
> > shape near a rotating body.
> >
> > Einstein predicted the effect, called ``frame dragging,'' 80 years
> > ago. Like many other aspects of Einstein's famous theories of
> > relativity, it's so subtle that no conventional method could measure
> > it.
> >
> > Using recent observations by X-ray astronomy satellites, including
> > NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a team of astronomers is
> > announcing that they see evidence of frame dragging in disks of gas
> > swirling around a black hole. The discovery will be announced today
> > at a meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American
> > Astronomical Society in Estes Park, Colo., by Dr. Wei Cui of the
> > Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues, Dr. Nan
> > Zhang, working at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Dr. Wan
> > Chen of the University of Maryland in College Park.
> >
> > Frame dragging is one of the last frontiers in relativity. More
> > familiar and already proven are the conversion of mass into energy
> > (as seen in atomic bombs and stars) and back, the Lorentz
> > transformations that make objects near the speed of light grow
> > thinner and heavier and stretch time, and the warping of space by
> > gravity (as seen when light is bent by a massive object).
> >
> > Einstein also predicted that the rotation of an object would alter
> > space and time, dragging a nearby object out of position compared to
> > predictions by the simpler math of Sir Isaac Newton.
> >
> > The effect is incredibly small, about one part in a few trillion,
> > which means that you have to look at something very massive, or build
> > an instrument that is incredibly sensitive and put it in orbit.
> 
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