frame dragging kerre-ye cârcub, cârcub-kerré Fr.: entraînement des repères, effet Lense-Thirring The alteration in the → free fall motion of a test → mass in the presence of a massive → rotating object, as compared to the identical case of a non-rotating object. This dragging of → inertial frames is predicted by → general relativity. Also called → Lense-Thirring effect. |