Is the Earth in a Vortex of Space-Time?

da6d writes "Apparently, we'll soon know for sure.... NASA has announced in an article that 'A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, which will take another year to analyze, should reveal the shape of space-time around Earth--and, possibly, the vortex.'" More from the article: "If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. But Earth is not stationary. Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple, slightly, pulling it around into a 4-dimensional swirl. This is what GP-B went to space to check."

Comments

Space

[nycheetah]

Live long and vortexed?

A time, cube perhaps?

[invisigoth]

Is Dr. Gene Ray behind this discovery?

http://www.timecube.com/

uhh

[flamesrock]

"If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. But Earth is not stationary."

Are you on crack!? The earth is stationary. It is the sun that's moving.

Re:uhh

[Belseth]

"If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. But Earth is not stationary."

Are you on crack!? The earth is stationary. It is the sun that's moving.

It's the fact that it's flat that gives it the illusion of motion.

Re:uhh

[MarkRose]

It's the fact that it's flat that gives it the illusion of motion.

No, it's flat because it's stationery, duh!

Re:uhh

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

No, it's flat because it's stationery, duh!

No. The Earth is too complex to have just ended up flat with the sun spinning around it. A higher power must have had a guiding hand. So we should instruct kids on the Intelligent Flat Earth Design Theory over the Newtonian-Einstienian theories of gravity, which are after all, completely unprovable.

well at least

[Compaq_Hater]

that explains the Bermuda Triangel huh ?, Maybe we will find flight 19 and a bunch of missing Millitary too.

CH

Re:well at least

[guttentag]

that explains the Bermuda Triangel

No, "Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple, slightly" explains leap years, daylight savings time, and the previously inexplicable 1.42-minute-per-month gain on my employer's time clock.

"A three-sided vortex (once limited to the greater Bermuda area but in recent years expanded to be anchored at Crawford, TX, Washington, DC, and Baghdad due to depletion of the ozone layer) into which pour vast sums of the rest of the world's time and money" explains the Bermuda Triangle.

It's all relative

[The Nine]

If Earth were stationary, that would be the end of the story. But Earth is not stationary.

I see they found that universal frame of reference they were looking for.

Whoa!

[memeplex]

My Cortex is in Gore-Tex contemplating the Vortex. I'm getting a complex! I need a cold compress! I need to undress. I'm relatively impressed. Er... where's Eminem when you need him? Am I off-topic here?

Purple Nurple Probe

[Helpadingoatemybaby]

So if I'm to understand this correctly, the spin of the Earth twists the nipples of spacetime?

Just In Case

[bahwi]

Well, if there's something wrong, it's best to not be caught without your Visual Guide to Surviving Timeless Space.

Re:So...

[eclectro]

If the Earth is in one of those time vortex things do I get paid overtime?

No, but if there is a sucking sound your job is being outsourced.

Re:Hmmm

[Belseth]

How much does Anna Nicole Smith distort this vortex?

The equation is 40DD=MC2.

Re:Stephen Hawkings

[Alsee]

The word 'inconclusive' comes to mind.

Not as often as the word 'hooters'.

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