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File:Einstein gyro gravity probe b.jpg

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Summary

One of the most perfect spheres ever created by humans. A fused quartz gyroscope for the Gravity Probe B experiment which differs from a perfect sphere by no more than a mere 40 atoms of thickness as it refracts the image of Albert Einstein in the background.

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Image title Close up of a clear, uncoated quartz rotor. A poster of einstein is shrunk and flipped in the clear material.
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