On 9/24/2011 3:02 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
Tiny, but I get where you're going with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_dragging
Here's the report from Gravity Probe B that observed it:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3456
At 37.2 milli-arc seconds/yr, separated by 730km, it doesn't seem to be
in the ballpark.
> distance <- (730*1000*sin(((37.2/3600)/1000)*pi/180))
> period <- 365 * 24 * 3600 # seconds
> speedOfLight <- 299792458 # meters/second
> ((distance/period)/speedOfLight)*1e9 # nanoseconds
[1] 1.392558e-08
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