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'Einstein Probe' Delayed
isorox writes "The BBC is reporting that a NASA satellite designed to test frame dragging, predicted by the theory of relativity, has been delayed for 24 hours because mission control couldn't verify the correct software had been loaded. The probe was proposed 35 years ago, but has never had the funding until now. The question remains is what happens if Frame Dragging isn't observed - will the experiment be wrong (in other words there's no point to it), or will we get faster-than-light ships for Christmas?"
-- johntracy.com, because everybody else is wrong.
I'm voting for warp drive on this one!
because mission control couldn't verify the correct software had been loaded.
Man, I must have missed a career as NASA flight controller, because I feel exactly the same way each time XP goes to windowsupdate.microsoft.com...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
by British scientists!
--- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad- Neal (not Cowboy) Boortz
Its 2004, I was supposed to have my flying car and a moon base by now. These "scientists" dont have their priorities straight.
WTF was that, "Carl Sagan's Cosmos: Brought to you by the Dick Cheney Foundation?"
Whenever I try to run games at too high resolution on this computer, the frames just start dragging along...
Man, stop smokin the crack:
1) Good result, but result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment - a negative result is as valid as a positive one.
1) Good result, and result appears to confirm the prediction - this is a successful experiment
That says the same freaking thing!! Not to mention you started at 1, went to 2, and then did 2 more 1's just trying to get to "four posibilities."
The question remains is what happens if Frame Dragging isn't observed - will the experiment be wrong (in other words there's no point to it), or will we get faster-than-light ships for Christmas?
:)
Let me put it this way:
Greetings from next Tuesday!
The aliens invented the horse and buggy?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
In this case its called "foot dragging", not "frame dragging".
Table-ized A.I.
sorry, buddy there's no such thing as a flux capacitor.
To observe time warping, they will launch a probe into space with balls in vacuum flasks frozen to near absolute zero 400 miles above the earth. They are making it hard. There is really nothing to time warping.
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips
And bring your knees in tight
And it's the pelvic thrust that really makes you insane
Let's do the time warp again!
Let's do the time warp again!
How ya like dat?
Don't worry,
time is relative...
mean who knew there'd be any practical applications of figuring out the laws of physics?
You can not change the laws of physics
laws of physics
laws of physics
You can not change the laws of physics
Laws of physics Jim!
Well, if data is accumulated in the woods, and no one is around to interpret it, is it still data?
There once was a lady named bright
Who travelled much faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night
Unfortunately, black holes are sparse in this neck of the woods
_UN_fortunately?
HTH.
Ground controllers could not verify the rocket had all its correct flight software loaded, and halted the launch.
I bet they're wishing now they'd kept the About box in the spec.
Oh, the theory for that has already been worked out. Now we only need dilithium crystals!
http://www.lcarscom.net/fsd/operations/warp.html
...John Titor, by chance?
> > Unfortunately, black holes are sparse in this neck of the woods
:)
> _UN_fortunately?
Well, in most necks of the woods they're actually rather dense.
HOO-ha!
---- I'll take you in a Hunt deathmatch any day.
The man's been dead for decades and now someone wants to "probe" him? What kind of sick world are we... errr... ohh... (hahaha)... oh, you mean a SPACE probe. [shuffles offscreen] ;p
Un-news
you may not know shit, but you sure know your Alcubierre warp drives.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Where to Publish Your Paper
- If you understand it and can prove it, then send it to a journal of mathematics.
- If you understand it, but can't prove it, then send it to a physics journal.
- If you can't understand it, but can prove it, then send it to an economics journal.
- If you can neither understand it nor prove it, then send it to a psychology journal.
- If it attempts to make something important out of something trivial, then send it to a journal of education.
- If it attempts to make something trivial out of some-thing important, send it to a journal of metaphysics.
I'm sure folks can add a few items suitable to this conversation and Slashdot."It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
No, I think you mean:
1) Bad result, but your graduate advisor yells at you. This is not a successful experiment.
2) Good result, but your graduate advisor takes the credit for it. Your advisor might consider this a successful experiment, but then he also calls you his "lab bitch" at faculty luncheons. Call it a draw.
3) Good result, but you will be unable to reproduce it ever again. Like the fabled WOW! event in radio astronomy, this tantalizing glimpse of success will haunt you through your waking hours, spent alternately drinking and working as an assistant manager at Radio Shack.
4) Bad result, but your graduate advisor is "accidentally" vaporized in the process. Although not strictly a successful experiment, you hear no complaints from your fellow grad students, the surviving faculty members, or the long-suffering department secretary as you are lead to the police car, leaving your former lab (and former career in academia) in glorious, if somewhat radioactive, flames.
Hope this helps!
to probe Einstein, even if you're a necro, and that's just gross.
WWJD? JWRTFA!
Ken Thomposn built Gravity B as a constrained version of Gravity BCPL. Once K&R got their hands on the technology and added a type system, they were ready to launch Gravity C. Gravity C++ soon followed in an attempt to incorporate Quantum Mechanics.
/. articles, there is much talk about Gravity D; hopefully it will have some nice black-hole garbage collection.
A perfect SuperString implementation has yet to be added to the language, although many incompatable approximations exist.
As we know from recent
Us humans? What are you, a vulcan?
Einstein breathes a sigh of relief as the box of rubber gloves is placed back into the drawer.