Posted on 01/13/2018 9:09:23 AM PST by MtnClimber
Observations of a trio of dead stars have confirmed that a foundation of Einstein’s gravitational theory holds even for ultradense objects with strong gravitational fields.
The complex orbital dance of the three former stars conforms to a rule known as the strong equivalence principle, researchers reported January 10 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. That agreement limits theories that predict Einstein’s theory, general relativity, should fail at some level.
According to general relativity, an object’s composition has no impact on how gravity pulls on it: Earth’s gravity accelerates a sphere of iron at the same rate as a sphere of lead. That’s what’s known as the weak equivalence principle.......
“We’re asking, ‘How does gravity fall?’” says astronomer Anne Archibald of the University of Amsterdam, who presented the preliminary result at the meeting. “That sounds weird, but Einstein says energy and mass are the same.” That means that the energy bound up in a gravitational field can fall just as mass can. If the strong equivalence principle were violated, an object with an intense gravitational field would fall with a different acceleration than one with a weaker field.
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e=mc^2
e=me2
Dean Martin, Frank Sanatra and Sammy Davis Jr.?
Babs Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Maria Carey: “Indubitably. We concur.”
Lets see...ultra dense Stars....
Matt Damion, Alex Baldwin and Cher
And of course the Universe revolves around their Star.
The wild-haired german jew for the zillionth time proves to be probably the smartest guy who ever drew breath. Even today, after having it all explained in detail with graphics laden documentaries, most people still can’t wrap their minds around what his theories really mean.
The wild-haired german jew for the zillionth time proves to be probably the smartest guy who ever drew breath.
Not really “stars”, but Don Lemmon, Anderson Cooper, and Jake Tapper.
Ed
e = mc2e = mc<sup>2</sup>
What could all these guys do with a computer?
Or Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas with even pencil and paper, access to a telescope.
Thanks MtnClimber.
General relativity doesn't mesh well with quantum mechanics, the theory that reigns on very small scales. Adjustments to general relativity that attempt to combine these theories tend to result in a violation of the strong equivalence principle, says physicist Clifford Will of the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved with the research.
That’s why I tend to like M-Theory... At least the math is consistent.
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