This is an animation of the frame-dragging effect, as computed by a valid near-field, low-velocity approximation of the full theory of General Relativity made in this paper, which I wrote as an undergraduate under the guidance of Professor John Stachel. What is shown is the rotation that ideal rods would undergo for a uniform sphere of the mass and radius of Earth rotating at the rate at which Earth does rotate according to the results of that paper. The relative rotation rate of Earth to the rods shown is sped up by a rate of about 3 million as compared with the solution found. As can be seen by Fig. 13 in the paper, the vector field characterizing the magnitude and direction of the rotation of these ideal rods resembles that of a magnetic field produced by a rotating, uniformly charged sphere.

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