This is awesome to those interested in science.

[JohnDG]

Hopefully im not the only person who understands what this mean's or thinks its completely awesome.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/20...obe-b.html

Tell me what you think guys. hock:

[Boreasos]

Read this the other day and nearly high-fived my monitor I was so exited.

It's been a few years coming now, but the fact that they finally proved it conclusively is a great milestone in science(or an "epic result" as some have said). The accuracy is astounding as well, showing how advanced some technology really is.

[Minimalist]

And religious fucktards everywhere ran screaming to their particular book of holy horseshit for reassurance!

[Zen Badger]

Page is gone, what was it about?

[ib.me.ub]

What was it about?

[FBM]

What was it about?

Gravity Probe-B. Try this one: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/20...obe-b.html

It's a bit less sensationalistic, but you still get the idea that this is a sensational confirmation of Einstein's work.

[JohnDG]

Sorry the page went down, I replaced the link with the one fbm gave although its not as cool looking.

Every time I talk about this people get bored and say so what? Im like what the hell, that means everything you saw on scifi shows is possible, wormholes, bending spacetime to instantly get somewhere but their like ok? They just don't realize what it means.

[lilphil1989]

The prediction of the precession of the perihelion of mercury, the fact that GPS has to correct for gravitational time dilation, the indirect observation of gravitational waves in the Hulse-Taylor binary system and the Pound-Rebka experiment are examples of evidence supporting general relativity.
So this is not so much some kind of final, clinching piece of evidence, rather another piece to add to the pile!

Although it is the first observation of frame-dragging in which the uncertainties don't completely swamp the result (that I'm aware of..), which is pretty cool.

The really awesome thing to look out for is the detection of gravitational waves when Advanced LIGO and LISA (if that ever happens, stupid americans, cutting NASA funding!) start running.

As for wormholes, you're jumping the gun quite a bit there.

[Autumnlicious]

So this is not so much some kind of final, clinching piece of evidence, rather another piece to add to the pile!

Oh hush you! Party pooper.

Although it is the first observation of frame-dragging in which the uncertainties don't completely swamp the result (that I'm aware of..), which is pretty cool.

Sometimes I idly wonder if the obesity of a certain biomass on the surface of the planet doesn't in some way affect the above...

[JohnDG]

As for wormholes, you're jumping the gun quite a bit there.

Im not saying were actually going to locate them or use them or anything like that. Just saying it would be more likely that they are there. Anything else beyond this point is hundreds if not thousands of years in our future.