Unique Double Pulsar Proves Einstein's "Spacetime" Theories


	Unique Double Pulsar Proves Einstein's "Spacetime" Theories

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7-14-2008 2:24 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3666982b-0aec-46e5-ac81-3bdd9224c4a8/8C79DD92-915E-4003-884F-96E28A431C45/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/the-only-double.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/the-only-double.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/the-only-double.html"><P><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/09/manchester_fig1.jpg"><IMG title="Manchester_fig1" height="214" alt="Manchester_fig1" hspace="0" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/07/09/manchester_fig1.jpg" width="376" vspace="0" border="0" /></A> Albert Einstein was famously annoyed about God playing dice with the universe.  Perhaps as an apology, God has set up the perfect demonstration of the theory of general relativity - it seems that if He moves in mysterious ways, those ways are at least consistent with four-dimensional spacetime.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/the-only-double.html"><P>A fundamental concept in relativity is the idea of curved spacetime, the idea that large masses bend surrounding space (and which has led to more people imagining bowling balls on sheets of rubber than could possibly have happened otherwise).  The problem is that even our largest local mass might as well be called "The wee tiny little o'Sun-chan".  It looks pretty big, but that's only because we're really small.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/the-only-double.html">The double pulsar PSR J0737−3039A/B has a number of properties that make it the 
perfect test for relativity.&nbsp; For one thing it doesn't need that great big 
bloody name, because it's the only double pulsar we've ever observed: just say 
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