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The Speed Of Gravity Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the blink-and-you'll-miss-it dept.

redwolfoz writes "New Scientist is reporting that the speed of gravity has been measured for the first time. 'The landmark experiment shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying colours.' Researchers made the measurement of the fundamental physical constant with the help of the planet Jupiter. One important consequence of the result is that it will help constrain the number of possible dimensions in the Universe."

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  1. Re:Practical Applications by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Almost. If the American GOVERNMENT has anything to do with it. The people and scientists are not on the whole evil and destructive like our government is.

    Now if George Bush were in a position to decide the direction this discovery should take, what would he decide?

    1) Destroying all who oppose us, us meaning the US Government.
    2) Enhancing propulsion for space travel or some other cool space/(astro)phyics/other science related direction.
    3) Get another 3 miles/gallon for SUVs

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  2. Re:Wow. by lommer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Karma-whoring asshole. Mods? could you please put this guy in his place for duplicating my post? (Check the times on the two identical posts, mine is first, this guy is just abusing his +1 posting bonus.)

    P.S. I have that bonus too, i just chose not to use it (as evidenced in this post)

  3. Unbelievable starting pay ... I mean UNBELIEVABLE by halldav3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that noticed some outrageous quoted starting salaries for some of these employers?

    Employer/Starting Pay/Most common entry job

    Intuit/$103,500/Software Engineer
    AutoDesk/$100,000/Software Engineer
    Intel/$79,249/Software Engineer
    Cisco/$75,000/Software Engineer
    Qualcomm/$67,000/Engineer
    IBM/$66,400/Software Engineer
    Adobe/$63,000/Software Engineer

    ... and on the low side:

    FTNC/$34,000/Systems Engineering
    SFC/$29,000/Programmer Analyst

    Anybody from one of these companies want to chime in on whether these are for real? I doubt very much that they are.

  4. Re:Utter Bullshi-ite. by Derling+Whirvish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not yet. I have however posted a comment to a "boobies" post on Fark.com once. Does that carry the same academic weight?

  5. Re:Wow. by Randolpho · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You'll get modded offtopic, I predict. :)

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