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Old March 10th 15, 04:15 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default EINSTEIN'S RIDICULOUSLY ACCURATE PREDICTIONS

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"It's hard not to love Einstein. He was a scientist who made predictions so ridiculously accurate that they couldn't be proved correct until long after his death. Here's an amazing example: in 1916 he theorized that a pulsar would attract its orbiting white dwarf at a rate of 7mm per day. At the time, there was no way to prove what he was saying, but it's a part of his theory of general relativity. Then, in 2003 scientists discovered a pulsar system of two objects, one "weighs" about the same as our sun, but is only about 12 miles across and the other is a larger white dwarf. The smaller, neutron star spins 25 times per second, and the larger spins once every two seconds while orbiting the neutron star every 2.5 hours. Amazingly, Einstein was spot on with his prediction, and the two are indeed getting closer together at a rate of 7mm per day."

Einsteinians, did Einstein really predict, in 1916, that "a pulsar would attract its orbiting white dwarf at a rate of 7mm per day"? And the prediction is valid for any pulsar and orbiting white dwarf, irrespectively of the parameters of the system? If so, it is indeed hard "not to love Einstein".

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