NASA Science News for March 26, 2004 3:00:00 AM

NASA Science News for March 26, 2004 3:00:00 AM

A physics experiment on the drawing board for the International Space
Station could help find the grand unifying "Theory of Everything."

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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list683223

Hmm. In a nutshell, this would launch two spacecraft to the other
side of the sun, and then have an interferometer on ISS measure how
much the sun's gravity is deflecting the light from the spacecraft to
ISS.

My first reaction is to wonder whether ISS is really stable enough in
pointing, rigid enough, and free enough of vibration. But I suppose
that they've done an initial stab at those variables and didn't find
show-stoppers.

I didn't see the wavelength in the article, but they said "laser
beams" so I suppose it is optical.