Weekend Projects

It’s another weekend, and I’m back to playing with new software. I’m giving the new Vista beta (build 5308) a test drive and I’m installing Fedora Core 5 on my wifi test box. Already I can tell that the new vista is a much more polished product. I’m also interested to see how RedHat’s latest stable release shapes up. Stay tuned…

Gravitational equivalent of EM stronger than GR predicts

ESA – GSP – Towards a new test of general relativity?

Researchers in Australia have discovered the gravitational equivalent of electromagnetism, gravitomagnetism is stronger than it should be. Their experiment involved accellerating a spinning superconductor and placing small accelleration sensors near it. The result was the formation of a gravitomagnetic accelleration field outside the spinning superconductor. What’s really interesting is that this field is 100 million times larger than Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts! Why is this interesting, you ask? According to Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, the field strength should be negligible.