Einstein Passes New Tests (results from a binary pulsar)

Einstein Passes New Tests
By Robert Naeye

March 3, 2005 | Albert Einstein's 90-year-old general theory of relativity has just been put through a series of some of its most stringent tests yet, and it has passed each one with flying colors. Radio observations show that a recently discovered binary pulsar is behaving in lockstep accordance with Einstein's theory of gravity in at least four different ways, including the emission of gravitational waves and bizarre effects that occur when massive objects slow down the passage of time.

An international team led by Marta Burgay (University of Bologna, Italy) discovered the binary pulsar, known as J0737–3039 for its celestial coordinates, in late 2003 using the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia. Astronomers instantly recognized the importance of this system, because the two neutron stars are separated by only 800,000 kilometers (500,000 miles), which is only about twice the Earth–Moon distance. At that small distance, the two 1.3-solar-mass objects whirl around each other at a breakneck 300 kilometers per second (670,000 miles per hour), completing an orbit every 2.4 hours.

continues, describing the four observed effects that support GR...

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1473_1.asp

Very interesting read.

I'm also a fan of his theory of time being seen through precise curvatures in space. I believe that "time" "exists" all at once. Thanks for the article, I'm a huge fan.