Experiment confirms space time warping by means of gravity exist

[oex]

It's official! Gravity does exist!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13286241

(Just in case you had any doubts....)....

No doubt there will be repeated updates on my favorite channel in the entire solar system:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Currently there are only 299 viewers on air.... I guess the other 298 work for NASA.... Considering there are 6 billion people in the world however this is rather disappointing....

All I can say is on my planet we love your show NASA ;)



For us it's kinda a cult show like the flintstones

PS. Maybe if there were more space wars with starfighters and warp drive you'd up the ratings.... Dont you guys read the wiki?

[baltoro]

PETER-
You know that BBC News page was updated since yesterday. I actually went over to the site: Physical Review Letters to try to find the article that the BBC News report describes. Couldn't find it,....and, now, I know why.

[dedndave]

the BBC is on top of things
they probably learned that grabity is a hoax perpetrated by conspiracy theorists

[baltoro]

...they probably learned that gravity is a hoax perpetrated by conspiracy theorists,...

...Yeah,...I was just getting to that. But, the moderators all expect me to pre-delete my profundities,...anything with the potential for commercial exploitation or litigation,...
:eek ...Wouldn't it be, like,...TOTALLY COOL if you could alter gravity's effect with a Wah-Wah Pedal ??? :eek

[oex]

.... All I can suggest is that you go outside and throw something directly up and keep watching it until it hits something.... I can assure you it's stunning!!!!

PS. For those sad schmucks that havent ever seen a live space launch.... I recommend you get high and watch one of only 2 ever left on NASA TV with the space shuttles.... Normally I would not suggest such a thing.... I am tangented to drugs these days however one experience I will always remember outside of flying was truely appreciating in a completely meaning of life sense the fundamental achievement that is viewing the perspective of the planet from earth to the edge of the atmosphere....

I know I will never experience this in real life so this is probably the one time I would recommend an 'out of body' experience :lol

PPS. Nothing stronger than w33d!!!!

PPPS. Early drugs use is officially recognised as an Obamanation!!!!

[baltoro]

...If, you listen to both of these songs (simultaneously), your quest for elightenment will be fulfilled: Eight Miles High, and, Mr. Spaceman.

[vanjast]

It's official! Gravity does exist!

Incredible... this is star wars stuff. Did you know that the universe is 500 miles wide !!  :toothy

[xanatose]

The title is a bit missleading.
A better one would have being "Experiment confirms space time warping by means of gravity exist."

That said, this is actually interesting.

[oex]

The title is a bit missleading.
A better one would have being "Experiment confirms space time warping by means of gravity exist."

That said, this is actually interesting.

:lol You know me.... An expert of understatement....

[vanjast]

but,.. we knew this about 50 or so years ago.. ??
Maybe it just better technology to confirm what we know... Now there' a plan.  :green2

I worked in a research institution for many years and a local TV soapie has nothing on the politics of 'research fellows'.
Soapie script writers (or politicians) are clueless on 'how to do it with vaseline'..  :bg

[FORTRANS]

but,.. we knew this about 50 or so years ago.. ??

Hi,

   The experiment was conceived ~59 years ago.  General
Relativity was proposed around 1916 IIRC.  There have been
indirect indications of frame dragging from neutron stars and the
like.  Depending on your belief system, this is the first experiment
to show these effects of General Relativity directly.  And so,
the first time we "knew" it to be correct.  Most would say it
merely confirms what we already "knew".

Maybe it just better technology to confirm what we know... Now there' a plan.

   Well the technology is quite impressive.  And it does confirm
two predictions of General Relativity in an elegant way.  And the
spin-offs have proven useful.

Cheers.

Steve N.

[xanatose]

but,.. we knew this about 50 or so years ago.. ??
Maybe it just better technology to confirm what we know... Now there' a plan.  :green2

Until an experiment confirms a theory there is no "we know this", there is however a "we believe this". Confirmation by experiment is the edge between known and believed. 

[vanjast]

Experimental proof is always statistical... and never really confirms anything absolute  :wink
Sure, we get a lot of people bleating 'god' in research journals such as Nature and others...  but!!!..  :wink