{"id":198,"date":"2004-04-23T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:10:59","slug":"general-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"General Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the news item in <a href=\"htttp:\/\/www.sciencemag.com\" target=\"_new\">Science<\/a> about this Gravity Probe satellite.  I&#8217;ve also heard vague hand waving from <a href=\"http:\/\/amnesiadust.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">amnesiadust<\/a> about how &#8220;frame dragging&#8221; works.  I&#8217;m not ashamed to say that I&#8217;m stumped.  I&#8217;ve got the basic, broad strokes of relativity down&#8230;but every time I start to think seriously about frame dragging, my brain starts to overheat until I need to go soak my head.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a good explanation of this phenomenon?  Care to offer a pointer?<\/p>\n<p>-C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the news item in Science about this Gravity Probe satellite. I&#8217;ve also heard vague hand waving from amnesiadust about how &#8220;frame dragging&#8221; works. I&#8217;m not ashamed to say that I&#8217;m stumped. I&#8217;ve got the basic, broad strokes of relativity down&#8230;but every time I start to think seriously about frame dragging, my brain starts <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=198\">General Relativity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[136,137,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}