Sentences with phrase «major prediction of general relativity»

And although Einstein eventually accepted that these oscillations in space - time could exist, they remain the only major prediction of general relativity still to be verified.

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The discovery immediately becomes a likely candidate for a Nobel Prize, and not just because it ties a neat bow around decades of evidence supporting a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity.

The detection by the upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO), along with two subsequent gravitational wave discoveries, confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and heralded a new era in physics, allowing scientists to study the universe in a new way by using gravity instead of light.