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."

Comments

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope? Bah!

[Doctor Morbius]

Nothing annoys me more than vain politicians having things named after themselves. Especially scientific instruments. Robert Byrd is one of the biggest pork barrel spenders in congress and in my opinion nothing should be named after him.

Green K Bank K Telescope K

[toddhisattva]

Is "Green Bank" code for "Burning Cross?"

This facility must be renamed.