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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 13, 2017, 11:55:51 am
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Scientists Weigh a White Dwarf Star, Prove Einstein Right
June 11, 2017
by Paul Ratner
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted that the gravity of stars could brighten and bend the light coming from other stars like a magnifying lens. Yet this is something Einstein did not think we could ever see due to the great distance between stars, writing in a 1936 article that "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly."
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/scientists-prove-a-key-part-of-einsteins-theory-of-relativity