Just as a bicyclist can summon gravity’s help by turning onto a descending street, it might be possible to use the topography of space itself for a propulsion assist, albeit a tiny one, says a relativity theorist.
The scheme starts with Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which says that space-time curves near massive objects (SN: 12/21&28/02, p.
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