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Over 100 Years Later, Einstein Proven to be THIS Accurate

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An international team of researchers spent the past 16 years doing one experiment. They were putting the theory of general relativity calculated by Einstein to the test and it passed, flying every color of the spectrum. For equipment, they used “a pair of extreme stars called pulsars” and “seven radio telescopes across the globe.”

Einstein was right

The infamous “E=mc2” formula is right to three decimal places. It’s been more than a century since the revered physicist Albert Einstein unleashed General Relativity on the scientific world. That has him listed in history as the father of a “geometric theory of gravitation that revolutionized our understanding of the Universe.

Space and time and matter are all exactly the same thing. Not only that, it’s all twisted. Astronomers have been trying to poke holes in his theory ever since, without any luck.

If some little crack in the theory Einstein came up with can be found, it opens up “new windows onto the Universe” which could “help resolve some of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos.

Since it seems like he’s right, after all, they have to go back to the drawing board on finding the dark matter that Albert says has to be there.

Michael Kramer led a whole team of international astronomers from his home base at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany. They tested the work of Einstein using seven widely spaced radio telescopes across the globe and “his colleagues observed a unique pair of pulsars for 16 years.

After crunching all the numbers, what they observed matched the predictions “with an accuracy of at least 99.99%

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Strobe light in space

“Radio pulsars” are perfect for comparing the calculation Einstein came up with because they’re “a special class of rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars.

That means, they’re excellent at emitting “powerful radio beams from their poles that (when combined with their rapid rotation) create a strobing effect that resembles a lighthouse.” Kramer and his team focused in on PSR J0737-3039 A/B, a “Double Pulsar” system “located 2,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.

To our delight” Kramer wrote, “we were able to test a cornerstone of Einstein’s theory, the energy carried by gravitational waves.”

They did it “with a precision that is 25 times better than with the Nobel-Prize winning Hulse-Taylor pulsar, and 1000 times better than currently possible with gravitational wave detectors.

Tiny particles of light had to be tracked far across the universe for accuracy. “We follow the propagation of radio photons emitted from a cosmic lighthouse, a pulsar, and track their motion in the strong gravitational field of a companion pulsar.” They have proof Einstein was right.

We see for the first time how the light is not only delayed due to a strong curvature of spacetime around the companion, but also that the light is deflected by a small angle of 0.04 degrees that we can detect. Never before has such an experiment been conducted at such a high spacetime curvature.

What do you think?

Written by Mark Megahan

Mark Megahan is a resident of Morristown, Arizona and aficionado of the finer things in life.

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