Did Einstein's Theory of Relativity Predict the Mass of Binary Stars?

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Einstein reconfirmed

"In the new Kepler study, scientists used the gravitational lensing to determine the mass of the white dwarf. By combining this information with all the data they acquired, the scientists were also able to measure accurately the mass of the red dwarf and the physical sizes of both stars. Kepler's data and Einstein's theory of relativity have together led to a better understanding of how binary stars evolve"



http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/767/2/111/

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.1165.pdf

 

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and again...

Science 26 April 2013.
A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6131/1233232.abstract

...The consistency of the observed orbital decay with general relativity therefore supports its validity, even for such extreme gravity-matter couplings, and rules out strong-field phenomena predicted by physically well-motivated alternatives...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.6875.pdf

 

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Einstein Einstein

An information-theoretic principle implies that any discrete physical theory is classical
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/full/ncomms2821.html

relativity is built on a space time continuum.

 

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Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.5830v1.pdf

modes B polarization comes from gravitational waves.

 

[Mentz114]

Thanks. The detection of B polarization is very significant if I'm not mistaken.