To: Termite_Commander; PatrickHenry
2 posted on
11/25/2005 11:42:21 AM PST by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Termite_Commander
I heard the lead NASA scientist is named Zefram Cochrane.
4 posted on
11/25/2005 11:48:38 AM PST by
Tarantulas
( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
To: Termite_Commander
"Put a spinning gyroscope into orbit around the Earth, with the spin axis pointed toward some distant star as a fixed reference point. Free from external forces . . ."That's a loaded assumption. Orbiting the earth, external forces would still be acting upon the gyroscope. Earth's gravity (inversely proportional to distance but still significant to at least the moon and beyond), Jupiter's gravity, solar wind, solar particles, impact particles, van Allen belt magnetics, etc. Of course, the whole Milky Way galaxy is gravitationally wedded, as is the local galaxy cluster so I'm not sure how one would design an experiment "free from external forces".
To: Termite_Commander
7 posted on
11/25/2005 11:51:14 AM PST by
Mr_Moonlight
(Rebuild the Twin Towers just as they were before, only taller this time)
To: Termite_Commander
9 posted on
11/25/2005 12:04:27 PM PST by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
To: Termite_Commander
In short, general relativity predicts that a massive rotating object (like the earth) distorts the space around it in such a way that nearby objects that are locally at rest are actually rotating slightly when compared to distant stars. Now, if we are in one of those time vortex's do we get paid time and a-half?
10 posted on
11/25/2005 12:05:40 PM PST by
FreeRep
To: KevinDavis
14 posted on
11/25/2005 12:30:16 PM PST by
solitas
To: Termite_Commander
By doing it this way, the scientists should be able to… stay employed for a long time.
15 posted on
11/25/2005 12:31:19 PM PST by
solitas
To: Termite_Commander
"To measure this angle reasonably well, GP-B needed a fantastic precision of 0.0005 arcseconds. It's like measuring the thickness of a sheet of paper held edge-on 100 miles away." More money for the Nerds!
More money for the Nerds!
They're certainly better with numbers than our bozos in Washington.
18 posted on
11/25/2005 1:23:17 PM PST by
manwiththehands
(Happy Thanksgiving to our heroes in Iraq. God bless you and Godspeed. Come home safe.)
To: Termite_Commander
First, though, there are a lot of data to analyze. Stay tuned. They need to be very sure before they announce the null result. Relativity is an illusion.
21 posted on
11/25/2005 2:06:59 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: Termite_Commander
What confuses me is WHY they have not done this experiment already .
33 posted on
11/25/2005 3:49:48 PM PST by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(secus acutulus exspiro ab Acheron bipes actio absol ab Acheron supplico)
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