Testing Relativity

Not really computer related, but just too darn cool to pass up. Stanford, with help from Lockheed Martin and NASA are actually going to test the Theory of Relavitivy, as best we can. The story actually contains a good amount of technical detail, but the gist is this: polished quartz balls, in gyroscopes, launched in a satallite and set spinning. To check their rotation, they have been coated with a superconducter that operates at about the temp. of liquid helium. From there, the box will detect the changes in the fields of the balls. Mmm...science in the morning.