By: Sabri

Sabri — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:17:12 +0000

Unfortunately, most tests of general rtvieality are plagued by noise. The effects are very small, and the best source of mass, and stretched spacetime, we have around (the Sun) is extremely loud . There are several, fairly small scale, experiments that verify the effects of curved spacetime and general rtvieality. They include:1) Keeping ridiculously accurate clocks on different floors of a building (they go out of sync because the higher floor experiences more time)2) (it has a greater distance to travel when its near the Sun, which makes its orbit disagree with Newton’s flat-space predictions)3) (the rotation of the Earth does interesting things to spacetime, like twirling a spoon in pudding)4) Bounce light up and down and show that it experiences red- and blue-shifting.5) when they’re almost right behind the Sun (the beams are slightly bent, and also delayed because of the spacetime curvature)#1, #4, and #5 may seem like strictly time experiments, but keep in mind that special rtvieality gives us a solid understanding of the relationship between space and time, so in these cases and experiment on one is an experiment on both.#3 is a direct, well known result, that is entirely due to spacetime being curved. None of this light bouncing around crap.The best experiment would be very, very expensive and probably impossible. Build perfectly straight, unimaginably strong, beams that are longer than the Earth is wide. Then build a triangle with them. You’ll find that far away from the solar system (in really, really deep space) the sum of the internal angles is 180b0, exactly like you’d expect. But if you build the same triangle near the Earth, the sum of the internal angles will actually add up to a tiny bit more than 180b0. This is for exactly the same reason that a triangle drawn on a sphere has more than 180b0: it’s on a curved surface.

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By: Sabri