In its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space
Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented
resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On
May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds
apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi's measurement gives us rare
experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has
shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough
to interfere strongly with light.