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3. April 2013
Gravity bends more than just space. It bends time. The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa’s most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday ‘to a precision of better than 1 per cent’ the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time. But this - what is referred to as the ‘geodetic’ effect - is only half of the theory (it f will take another 8 months or so to decipher the
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