Gravity Probe B Demonstrates Einstein Theory
By Frank Morring, Jr. .
Washington .
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A high-powered team of physicists and engineers has concluded that NASA’s $700 million Gravity Probe B (GP-B) experiment demonstrated two key aspects of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, but not to the hoped-for degree of confidence.
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