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NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation
DoctorBit writes "NASA scientists have achieved a breakthrough in simulating the merging of two same-size non-spinning black holes based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations. The scientists accomplished the feat by using some brand-new tensor calculus translations on the Linux-running, 10,240 Itanium processor SGI Altix Columbia supercomputer. These are reportedly the largest astrophysical calculations ever performed on a NASA supercomputer. According to NASA's Chief Scientist, "Now when we observe a black hole merger with LIGO or LISA, we can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right.""
They build a computer model "based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations" so that they "can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right." They're going to use his equations to verify his theories? I want to publish an equation that says "7=13" and then theorize that "7*2=26". Won't building a model based on an equation automatically prove a theory that is based on that equation?