There seems tobe a challenger. Too bad Albert isn't alive to settle this science

Einstein's Theory Fights Off Challengers

Image Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/ SAO/A. Vikhlinin; ROSAT), Optical (DSS), Radio (NSF/NRAO/VLA/ IUCAA/J.Bagchi)Two new studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before, using observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity on cosmic scales. These results, made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, show Einstein's theory is still the best game in town. Such studies are crucial for understanding the evolution of the universe, both in the past and the future, and for probing the nature of dark energy, one of the biggest mysteries in science. This composite image of the Abell 3376 galaxy cluster shows X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope in gold, an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey in red, green and blue, and a radio image from the VLA in blue. The bullet-like appearance of the X-ray data is caused by a merger, as material flows into the galaxy cluster from the right side. The giant radio arcs on the left side of the image may be caused by shock waves generated by this merger.
Chandra observations of galaxy clusters have previously been used to show that dark energy has stifled the growth of these massive structures over the last five billion years and to provide independent evidence for the existence of dark energy by offering a different way to measure cosmic distances.


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Like I have said about AGW and other "Settled Issues" in the scientific world, "There is no such thing as settled science."

 

Good article. Very interesting.

You are RIGHT about that!

Tom G

 

Well I hope it's all settled, as I have mastered quantum physics, chaos theory, e=mcc, etc. and found that Stephen Hawking had made a few wrong conclusions about the origins of the universe.
These new theories have me going through back issues of Popular Mechanics just to see if I missed anything. I have not found anything yet so I'm OK.

 

Have at it Dave.

You know it doesn't take much to win a Nobel these days

roadster with a stick

 

Einstein was a media production of stolen ideas......... google his lies.

 

Case in point:

Particle Discovery Has Physicists Abuzz | Particle Physics & Fermilab Tevatron | LiveScience

In a development physicists are calling "huge," "tantalizing" and "unexpected," researchers have measured a signal that could herald a new kind of particle or force of nature.
Yet the finding is not yet conclusive, and leaves many researchers skeptical.


The discovery comes from an atom smasher called the Tevatron at the Fermilab physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Inside the accelerator there, particles are ramped up to near the speed of light as they race around a 4 mile (6.3 km) ring. When two particles collide, they disintegrate into other exotic particles in a powerful outpouring of energy. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]
Scientists analyzed thousands of these collisions, and found a suspicious pattern in about 250 more cases than predicted. In these instances, the products of the collision between a proton and its antimatter partner, the antiproton, were different than expected.
Buzzing
"The whole physics world is buzzing with this result," physicist David Kawall of the University of Massachusetts Amherst told LiveScience.

 

I built and installed the proton injector for the Tevetron in 1999. They do some very neat things with that ring!