Like a spoon in honey

Found this really cool science news story about the Earth spinning time and space around itself.

    An international research team has found the first direct evidence that the Earth is dragging space and time around itself as it rotates, like a spoon spinning in honey. This swirling of space and time around a massive object was first suggested by German physicist Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity.

Read the whole thing here. [Found via 12th Harmonic]


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