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Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test

Posted by timothy on from the ha-ha-england-ha-ha dept.

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:Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope? Bah! by PakProtector · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Someone mod parent +1, understands the reasons for the existence of the United States' bicameral legislature

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  2. Re:Laws and Theories by Cow+Jones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mod up, please. Some joker gave the AC "-1, Overrated", but he's right on topic (and didn't have any points before the unjustified "overrated" mod).

    Slashdot really shouldn't allow "overrated" mods on posts without a single moderation record.

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  3. Re:Einstein: Really Smart by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Compared to "knew everything", any real person's genius is "narrow". Mathematical theoretical physics is very narrow compared to "everything", even if it included a "theory of everything".

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