Black holes. Curved space-time. Light bent by gravity. Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has some pretty bizarre implications. In 1918, Austrian physicists Joseph Lense and Hans Thirring calculated that the theory has even more of a twist: Like an eggbeater, a spinning object twirls the very fabric of space-time around it.
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