This experiment can equally prove an ether.
Don

ywalter@... wrote:

>FYI - warm regards
>Yasmin :)
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>Relativity passes latest test Oct 20
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>Einstein's general theory of relativity has survived its latest encounter
>with experiment. Ignazio Ciufolini of the University of Lecce in Italy and
>Erricos Pavlis of the University of Maryland in the US have measured a
>value of the Lense-Thirring effect -- also known as frame-dragging -- that
>is 99% of that predicted by general relativity (Nature 431 958). However,
>the uncertainty in the result could be as high as 10%, and a number of
>researchers have pointed put that there might be other sources of error in
>what is an extremely difficult measurement.
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