{"id":8872,"date":"2011-06-05T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2011-06-05T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T08:00:35","slug":"why-they-bothered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8872","title":{"rendered":"Why They Bothered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v4\/43\">Finally, results from Gravity Probe B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been a bit of discussion on theses results already, but I note this one because I liked the summary about why the experiment was done:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though it is popular lore that Einstein was right (I even wrote a book on the subject), no such book is ever completely closed in science. As we have seen with the 1998 discovery that the universe is accelerating, measuring an effect contrary to established dogma can open the door to a whole new world of understanding, as well as of mystery. The precession of a gyroscope in the gravitation field of a rotating body had never been measured before GP-B. While the results support Einstein, this didn\u2019t have to be the case. Physicists will never cease testing their basic theories, out of curiosity that new physics could exist beyond the \u201caccepted\u201d picture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My only nit is that if we are testing the models, they are not dogma.  There&#8217;s a subspecies of crackpot that rails against science as a religion who appear to miss the whole &#8220;experimental confirmation&#8221; aspect to science.  They paint a picture of scientists who blindly, unquestioningly accept Einstein and it just isn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, results from Gravity Probe B There has been a bit of discussion on theses results already, but I note this one because I liked the summary about why the experiment was done: Even though it is popular lore that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}