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Blog: Einstein in the News
It still staggers the mind: 5 papers in 6 months that would unlock some of the mystery of the universe and change our lives forever.Sunday, March 27, 2005 After meticulously measuring the Earth's spin for 11 years, two satellites recently confirmed something straight out of weird science--the warping of space and time.
The Earth's rotation drags space and time with it, like molasses pulled around by a spinning bowling ball. Satellites embedded in that whirling space are swept along at a slightly faster rate. But the same stretching of space causes time to travel farther, making it slow down a smidgen.
It was just as Albert Einstein had predicted--space and time are inseparable and fluid, and they get pulled out of shape near a big rotating body like the Earth--though decades would pass before science developed the tools to prove him right.
Full story from The Chigago Tribune. posted by Einstein A to Z
