File:Einstein_gyro_gravity_probe_b.jpg
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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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current | 18:25, 9 August 2012 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.45 MB) | Bolkovia | Reverted to version as of 02:36, 20 January 2006. It's the original one and the previous user gave no reason | |
08:31, 11 December 2010 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.75 MB) | Phelipemancheno | Reverted to version as of 07:45, 5 June 2010 | ||
15:24, 9 June 2010 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.45 MB) | Amandajm | Reverted to version as of 02:36, 20 January 2006 Aavindraa, unless YOU were the original photographer, do not overlay the original with you automatic digital adjustments. Save elsewhere | ||
06:44, 9 June 2010 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.75 MB) | Aavindraa | image was badly photographed and tones were automatically corrected using software. no "definition" whatsoever was lost. | ||
13:23, 8 June 2010 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.45 MB) | Amandajm | Reverted to version as of 02:36, 20 January 2006 The change resulted in loss of definition, and was unnecessary | ||
07:45, 5 June 2010 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.75 MB) | Aavindraa | fix contrast - looks like an 80's pic as is | ||
02:36, 20 January 2006 | 3,552 × 2,384 (4.45 MB) | Tano4595 | 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 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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