NASA project puts Einstein to the test

Source: stltoday.com Posted By: Erin H...4951 days ago

What Washington University professor Clifford M. Will reported in his book "Was Einstein Right?" was reported again on Wednesday, this time based on the findings of a set of orbiting gyroscopes that took $750 million and a half-century of work by a team of scientists.

The telescopes on the project, known as Gravity Probe B, detected a slight sag and an even slighter twist in space-time, which confirms some of the many strange predictions — ranging from black holes to the expanding universe — of....

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