On Feb 2, 5:52*pm, BradGuth wrote:
On Feb 2, 5:10*pm, Double-A wrote:





On Feb 2, 5:03*pm, BradGuth wrote:

On Feb 2, 2:01*pm, Double-A wrote:

"Closing in on Einstein: Frame-Dragging Clearly Visible

The accuracy of the GP-B experimental results has improved seventeen-
fold since our preliminary results announcement at the American
Physical Society annual meeting in April 2007. At that time, only the
larger, geodetic effect was clearly visible in the data. Over the past
two and one half years, we have made extraordinary progress in
understanding, modeling and removing three Newtonian sources of error—
all due to patch potentials on the gyroscope rotor and housing
surfaces. The latest results, based upon treatment of 1) damped
polhode motion, 2) misalignment torques and 3) roll-polhode resonance
torques, now clearly show both frame-dragging and geodetic precession
in all four gyroscopes (see figure at top right)."

http://einstein.stanford.edu/highlights/status1.html

Double-A

In other words, they forced those extremely noisy GP-B results in
order to suit the intent of what our public funding was obligated to
find.

Paramagnetic and diamagnetic properties apply to most molecular
elements (including GP-B gyros), and otherwise photons are affected by
the spin of electrons, as well as photons cause electrons to spin.
The average number of photons/m3 is absolutely huge and not
understood.

*~ BG

Oh Brad, you're such a cynic!

Double-A

Better a cynic than a parrot. *Are you suggesting that photons are
meaningless?

Is Sirius(C) a black hole, or is serious frame-dragging keeping it
stealth?


Bunch of ancient legends. No evidence it exists.


"Sirius B is invisible to the naked eye but packs almost the entire
mass of our sun into a globe only 4 times as large as the Earth.
Sirius B's surface is 300 times harder than diamonds, while its
interior has a density 3,000 times that of diamonds. Spinning on its
axis about 23 times a minute, it generates huge magnetic fields around
it."

23 rpm (~1878 times faster than our sun) seems fast enough spin to
frame drag like nothing else within hundreds of light years.


Merritts a gravity probe! 8.7 light years away. I wonder how fast we
could get one there?


*A new
TRACE could easily get a direct image of Sirius(B), but Sirius(C)
could remain invisible.

*~ BG

Double-A

*~ BG

Double-A