NASA probe proves Einstein correct

Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the force of their gravity, scientists said today after a NASA probe confirmed two key parts of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

"Einstein survives," chuckled Francis Everitt, Stanford University physicist and principal investigator for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), one of the US space agency's longest running projects.

The physics experiment was more than four decades in the making, and finally launched in 2004.

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