Is there a 4th dimension ?

 

Like a beach chair sagging under a sunbather’s weight, the fabric of spacetime does indeed warp around the mass of the Earth — just as Albert Einstein predicted. And like a swimmer moving through the water, the rotation of the Earth affects the movement of spacetime itself. A gravity probe whose origins date to the era before human spaceflight has finally proved general relativity right, according to NASA.
 Einstein’s theories of relativity hold that space and time are woven together into a four-dimensional fabric, and that a weighty body like a planet or a star depresses that fabric, like someone sitting on a chair or a trampoline. Gravitational attraction is really just the rotation of a massive body would also affect the fabric, so that a distant observer would perceive objects close to a gravitational body as being dragged around. Think of Earth sitting in a vat of liquid — as the planet rotates, the liquid starts to swirl, too, and so does everything near the Earth.

If this is true, the axis of a gyroscope would change when compared to the light from a faraway star. This is what GP-B was designed to do.

Orbiting 400 miles above the Earth in a polar orbit, GP-B contains four gyroscopes made of quartz-silicon spheres that are considered nearly perfect objects following the warped path. This developement explains many things and skews all previous calculations with regard to extra solar events. IT also opens up a new world of math to astronomers who need more exacting numbers to conduct experiments with regard to space and time. Lastly the new equations that come from the realization of this new truth may help solve the energy crisis on the Earth.