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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."

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  1. Re:not so fast by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That smacks of bumper-sticker material.

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  2. Re:Can't be right by UncleBen405 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The pre-universe consists of exactly nothing and with no heat source the temperature is absolute zero. When you achieve absolute zero temperatures, you have also created a force, this force is known as gravity/antigravity. I will refer to this force in the future as a "GAG" force. A GAG force consists of perfectly balanced, gravity and antigravity forces, they do not destroy each other, they just negate each other's powers. We are all familiar with gravity. Gravity is a constant force, but antigravity is a variable force that causes rotation. This rotation is better known as centrifugal force. The larger a body is and the faster a body rotates, the more antigravity force is used, thereby making gravity appear stronger. So in actuality, the pre-universe consists of absolute zero temperatures and zero gravity, nothing else, there is no matter to affect the stability of the gravity/antigravity force. The shape of a GAG force has been determined to be spherical, because everything in the known Universe that rotates is spherical. The size of one GAG force has yet to be determined. Like a magnet, a GAG force has polar opposites, but instead of positive and negative, they are gravity and antigravity. The pre-universe is filled with GAG forces in perfect balance with like forces repelling each other. GAG forces are the mother of magnetism. Just like the magnetic field of the Earth, a GAG force in the pre-universe reversed its polarity. The pre-universe is not a perfect place, if the pre-universe were a perfect place, nothing would have changed in the pre-universe, and there would be no Universe. An imperfection that led to the creation of the Universe eventually sparked the creation of life and evolution. When this GAG force flipped, polar opposites began attaching the GAG forces to each other, creating a chain reaction through the pre-universe. When the chain reaction stopped, the dimensions of our Universe in the pre-universe were set. The shape of the Universe is either round, spiral or irregular, just like Galaxies. For an undetermined amount of time, the attached GAG forces existed in perfect harmony. Eventually, one or more of the attached GAG forces reversed polarity, repelling the GAG forces that they were originally attached to. This created a chain reaction, smashing similar forces together, creating a massive static electrogravitational charge of pure energy, a giant lightning bolt, the origin of static electricity, creating matter, at the contact points. I call this, "The Mega EG-Charge". These pockets of matter became Galaxies. The matter that was created by the Mega EG-Charge, was not just gaseous, it was also all the heavy elements, iron, heavy fissionable material, etc.. The iron, alpha iron in particular, picked up a residual magnetic charge from the GAG force megacharge. Of all the heavy elements, iron seems to be the most abundant, but heavy fissionable elements, like natural uranium, had to make up a significant portion of our early Universe, without heavy fissionable matter, Stars would not work. Gravity and magnetism, plus the GAG forces surrounding our Universe, in the pre-universe, account for all the missing forces needed to hold the Universe together. I call this "The GAG Theory of the Origin of the Universe", or simply, "Ben's Law." Now that we know how the Universe and Galaxies formed, lets explore the evolution of Galaxies. After the initial formation of the Galaxies, matter begins returning to energy through nuclear fission. In the pre-universe, we went from energy to matter, and since the creation, we are going from matter to energy. In the beginning of the Universe, we started with all the elements, and through nuclear fission, we are breaking them down, using them up. Let's jump ahead to the end of the initial Galactic formation. After as much energy as can be extracted from a Galaxy has been extracted. The remaining heavy elements, made up of spent Stars and Planets and Galactic debris come together through the properties of magnetism and gravity. Polar opposit