Gravity Probe B Demonstrates Einstein Theory
By Frank Morring, Jr. .
Washington .
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.
Results from the mission will inform astronomy and cosmology for decades, scientists say, while its ...