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p2pnet.net OTÂ News Feature:- Albert Einstein was right:
The Earth and other large astral bodies do distort space and time as they spin.
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As Einstein Predicted, Earth Distorts Time, Space
By Susan B. Shor - TechNewsWorld
Scientists have found direct evidence that massive objects in space do pull the space surrounding them, a phenomenon called “frame-dragging” that was first predicted in 1918 using Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The findings were reported in the journal Nature.
Einstein believed that massive objects such as the Earth pull the space and time around them as they move, creating distortion. This distortion, in turn, creates Earth’s gravitational pull. Any smaller objects near the distortion would also shift.
“There were two remaining tests for Einstein’s General Relativity (GR) theory: The test that we have reported results on in the latest issue of Nature, and the detection of gravitational waves,” geodesist Erricos C. Pavlis of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and the University of Maryland at Baltimore, explained to TechNewsWorld.
“The latter will be tested (bar any surprises), by the NASA mission LISA/LIGO which will launch sometime in 2010 or so. The former has been our pet investigation for several years.”
Orbit Variation
Pavlis and research partner Ignazio Ciufolini of Italy’s University of Lecce tracked the orbits of LAGEOS and LAGEOS2 (Laser Geodynamics Satellites), which were designed to have very stable orbits to allow precise measurements of distance from the station to the satellite.
The researchers found that the satellites’ orbits were slightly different from what they should have been. The variation proved frame-dragging exists, they said.
“These results were made possible by the excellent products (gravity models) that are coming out of the NASA mission GRACE,” Pavlis explained. “The results were based on laser ranging data collected and freely distributed by the International Laser Ranging Service, with minimal effort by our team — beyond what we normally have to do for other applications of these data.”
Pavlis and Ciufolini had published results with a 20 percent margin of error in the journal Science in 1998. A NASA mission now in orbit, Gravity Probe B, is scheduled to observe “frame-dragging” in about a year. It is expected to be accurate to within 1 percent. Pavlis and Ciufolini’s results are accurate to about 5 percent.
“The more such results, and the more independent confirmations, the better,” Pavlis said.
Measuring Gyroscope Spin
Gravity Probe B measures tiny changes in the direction of spin of four gyroscopes contained in an Earth satellite. This allows for the measurement of how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth, and of frame-dragging.
“We will continue our work with the two satellites we used, extending the test in time, and eventually using background models that are even of higher resolution and accuracy, as they become available in the future, to produce an even more accurate result,” Pavlis said.
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October 25th, 2004 at 5:59 am
Janet,
Please,…… foregive Me,….. Reggie.
October 25th, 2004 at 8:59 pm
Janet,
I am with You. I NEVER had so much in common with anybody other than You. Sweet”p” did not fit my personality like You Janet. I have never felt the way I feel about YOU, Please,…… foregive Me Janet ? This is Reggie. Janet’s Property Reggie. I have been comming across more money lately and I also have come across more bills and I am still broke. I am with You and I SUPPORT the way You feel in all. I oppologize because I am selfish to the point where I have traveled to many of different states looking for You because I WANT to be with YOU, Janet and I WANT YOU TO LIVE through this I know I feel the same way that You did when the shoe was on the other foot. When You told Me to PROMISS YOU,…. “THAT I would and Have Live for You Janet, I feel the same way !
Look dig this Life here being born with world on our shoulders full of sins that got here before We did and will be here after We are not. I have not did anything with those women in L.A. who drove me around and invited Me into their homes. When I think of it I spent more than a month in L.A. looking for You, Janet Jackson after My clothes were stolen, My money was spent and I could not even deliver the CD’s that I have safely kept that sound way better than what You are listening to ” I PROMISS YOU, ” this much is TRUE. I can Play this out just like You Janet because I need You and You know it. Well the Future is yet to be told.
I gave You ” Damita Jo, ” I told to name the internet web site “peir 2 peir (Jan)net. network ” and unlike the other that was not there for You I was creating our spiritual and physical wealth that shall be guarded and I never found You as much as wanted to look into Your eyes Janet