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Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test
FiReaNGeL writes with an excerpt from a story at e! Science News: "Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist's 93-year-old theory passed yet another test. Scientists at McGill University used the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to do a four-year study of a double-star system unlike any other known in the Universe. The system is a pair of neutron stars, both of which are seen as pulsars that emit lighthouse-like beams of radio waves."
If they want to REALLY test a theory, they should just post it on slashdot.
No, silly, that's just how you test the server.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I think what he's saying is that since these scientists's job to to disprove relativity, or kill cancer, or cure AIDS, and they failed at their job, then they should not get their paycheck next month.
Seems perfectly logical to me.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Yes, this upholds the theory that pink unicorns, which are known to exist, are invisible, otherwise this experiment would have revealed them. Further proof of the existence of invisible pink unicorns!!!
Here's an experiment you can do yourself. Find a dark room, such as a bathroom stuck between two other rooms and therefore windowless. Close the door and keep the light off. Reach out your hand. Do you feel anything? Holy Crap, you just found an OMGPONIES! Turn the light on, quick! Did you see the OMGPONIES!? No, you didn't. Further proof that OMGPONIES!s, known to exist, hate artificial lighting, and run very fast. Isn't that amazing?