Sentences with phrase «test of relativity»

Surely someone must have been interested in a modern test of relativity using the same parameters??

Increasingly accurate clocks — now losing no more than a second over millions of years — are leading to such advances as refined tests of relativity and improved navigation systems

So although the subject matter is well established and we know how to teach it, I try and talk about LHC and where things are relevant to that, and then wander off for five minutes and talk about current tests of relativity e.g. new space missions that are relevant.

Not exact matches

While Relativity had paid about $ 1 million to use the test stand, the company won an «Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity» contract, which gives Relativity $ 1.5 million from NASA to keep using the E-3 stand, Ellis said.

Relativity has completed 100 test firings of the Aeon 1 engine, using the E-3 facility at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Theory is a tested, proven conclusion (i.e. a hypothesis becomes a theory once it is proven or accepted as truth, such as the theory of relativity, computational theory, etc..

This observation is neither an endorsement of total relativity nor a reduction of the text to an inkblot test.

But it would be unfortunate if, recognizing this relativity of all our interpretation, we gave up the constant testing of our interpretations against the received texts in the community of scholarly interpreters.

The neutrino test you are referring to was a huge deal, which is why most of the scientific community was skeptical and didn't immediately rewrite Einsteins theory of relativity.

«a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

The observation tests Einstein's theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity, with unprecedented rigor and provides proof positive that black holes exist.

With the black hole merger, general relativity has passed the first such test, says Rainer Weiss, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, who came up with the original idea for LIGO.

A new test of general relativity: gravitational radiation and the binary pulsar PSR 1913 +16.

Virgo also allowed scientists to better test Einstein's general theory of relativity.

A key tenet of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed yet another test with flying colors — and for the first time in space.

That «equivalence principle» now serves as the cornerstone of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, and physicists are keen to test it in as many ways as they can.

By the end of the 20th century, advances in technology allowed most of general relativity's predictions to be tested.

To test theories such as general relativity, the strength of gravity is measured precisely using ensembles of supercold atoms falling in a vacuum chamber.

Event horizons seem to be the best theoretical test bed for combining general relativity and quantum mechanics into a unified theory of quantum gravity.

«Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein's General Relativity.»

At stake is the nearly 100 - year quest to unify the well - tested theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics into a supertheory of quantum gravity.

Everitt has devoted a half - century of his life to testing general relativity and was the principal investigator of Gravity Probe B, a NASA - funded satellite mission that studied, and eventually verified, another aspect of Einstein's theory.

Scientists planned to use it to explore galaxy formation, test Einstein's general theory of relativity, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

The Earth may provide a new way to test Einstein's general theory of relativity, says an astronomer in the US.

As with previous detections of gravitational waves, the scientists used their measurements to test general relativity.

Astronomers measuring this radiation will try to test general relativity, the leading theory of gravity, to unprecedented precision.

Seeking still more complete descriptions of the workings of spacetime, scientists are testing the boundaries of the special theory of relativity

Studies of atomic quantum states in free - fall conditions may provide ways to test predictions of general relativity.

Not only that, we could also test Einstein's general theory of relativity in the most extreme environment yet.

Studies of a quantum object — a Bose - Einstein condensate — in free - fall conditions may provide high - precision tests of general relativity.

One of the first rigorous tests of general relativity was an observation of the precession of Mercury's orbit around the sun.

After a century of testing general relativity, physicists still strive to achieve what the genius who formulated the theory could not.

This meant it just missed the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's publication of the theory of general relativity — whose predictions scientists hope to test with instruments like those on board.

General relativity has never been tested in places where the effects of gravity become truly extreme — for example, at the edge of a black hole.

Using the latest satellite data, the Planck researchers have put various theories to the test that take dark energy into account and are based on modified gravitation — and hence also call into question the theory of gravitation postulated in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

A newly discovered magnetized neutron star could be used to test Einstein's general theory of relativity

It could mean Einstein was wrong, requiring changes to his well - tested theory of relativity.

Now observers have tested general relativity by tracking two of those stars over complete orbits: S0 - 2, which takes 16 years to revolve, and S0 - 38, which takes 19 years.

The program, called Einstein@Home, will run on personal computers during their idle time and is part of a worldwide project that will help physicists analyze gigantic volumes of data in their test of the central predictions of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

The $ 700 - million spacecraft is designed to test two predictions of Einsteins general theory of relativity, which he proposed in 1916.

«It's the first time that general relativity is really tested around a supermassive black hole,» says Aurélien Hees at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In fact, says astrophysicist Rachel Mandelbaum of Princeton University, «projects like the CFHT Lensing Survey can be used to test theories of dark matter and general relativity.»

«To be able to test general relativity is of crucial importance to physicists and astronomers,» Chen said.

It was Karl Popper who first identified what he called «the demarcation problem» of finding a criterion to distinguish between empirical science, such as the successful 1919 test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and pseudoscience, such as Freud's theories, whose adherents sought only confirming evidence while ignoring disconfirming cases.

Dimitrios Psaltis, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona, is helping to test what may be general relativity's most extreme prediction: that large - enough stars will eventually collapse under their own gravity to form these infinitely dense objects.

One of the first reported tests of the equivalence principle — well before it was understood in the framework of general relativity — was Galileo's apocryphal experiment in which he is said to have dropped weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The observation «confirmed several key astrophysical models, revealed a birthplace of many heavy elements and tested general relativity as never before,» said Cho.

«Basically we are testing general relativity in a new regime,» says Laura Cadonati, a physicist at Georgia Institute of Technology and LIGO's deputy spokesperson.

Four years of data track the spin precession of a pulsar orbiting a second pulsar, providing a positive test of general relativity in a strong gravitational field.

This provides a test of general relativity and alternative theories of gravity in the strong - field regime.