Frame Dragging by Earth Reconfirmed

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, 2004 @12:10PM from the lets-do-the-time-warp-again dept.

smooth wombat writes "After 11 years of watching the movements of two Earth-orbiting satellites, researchers found each is dragged by about 6 feet (2 meters) every year because the very fabric of space is twisted by our whirling world. The results, announced today, are much more precise than preliminary findings published by the same group in the late 1990s. The researchers say their result is 99 percent of the predicted drag, with an error of up to 10 percent. The details are reported in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Nature."

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Re:Why, this explains why.... by ikkonoishi · 2004-10-20 12:17 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Have you been spinning around a lot lately?
Re:A Brief Explanation by Trogre · 2004-10-20 15:35 · Score: 1, Offtopic

... and how exactly are Adam and Eve or Noah's Ark falsifiable or contradictory in any way to modern science?

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