Sentences with phrase «test predictions of general relativity»

So if astronomers can understand the physics of the matter that is flowing into the black hole, they can use it to test the predictions of general relativity as never before — but only if the movement of the matter in the accretion disc can be completely understood.

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

The multimodel mean is not intrinsically worse in this regard than the mean of 5 realizations of a diffusion process, the mean time lapse of 4 atomic clocks (as was used in an experiment testing a prediction of general relativity), or successive measures on an industrial process.

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«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Indeed, researchers didn't truly nail the light - bending prediction until they used quasar measurements made in the 1960s, says physicist Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis, an expert in tests of general relativity.

The most advanced clocks can help physicists to test such fundamental aspects of reality as the time variability of physical constants, to very precisely verify the predictions of the general theory of relativity, and also to search for dark matter in the Universe.

The team will test the predictions of current theories of gravity, including Einstein's theory of General Relativity, The funding is provided in the form of a «Synergy Grant», the largest and most competitive type of grant of the ERC.

«Our goal is to test some of the key predictions of Einstein's General Relativity by imaging the immediate vicinity of -LSB-...]

Our research will test fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of General Relativity (GR).