A team of NASA scientists proposed a series of spacecraft flying in formation to test General Relativity on the smallest scale. A series of spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation could test general relativity on the smallest scale.
A team of NASA scientists proposed a series of spacecraft flying in formation to test General Relativity on the smallest scale.Scientists are increasingly looking to make sense of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos, including dark matter and dark energy.
The proposal would see several spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation using atom interferometers. Using this formation could help shed light on the sun’s gravitational field and unknown physics, the scientists claim. The mission would search for deviations from the predictions of general relativity at the solar system scale. According to the scientists, its precision will make it a first-of-its-kind mission., Turyshev explained that “these deviations are hypothesized to manifest as nonzero elements in the gravity gradient tensor , fundamentally akin to a solution of the Poisson equation.”
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