Gravity probe launched

April 21, 2004

What a great time we live in–the Einstein gravity probe was launched and will begin investigating General Relativity. Trying to see if certain predictions in that theory, related to mass warping space-time, hold up.

This will be cool to see, though the results are still a couple years away–it’s a year of gathering data, and then they expect it will take another year to sift thru the massive amounts of data looking for proof, or not.