Einstein was Right: General Relativity Confirmed

[kc0itf]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/g ... 00310.html

[Harry Costas]

G'day kcOitf

Journal writing at its worst.

It has not confirmed.

[MrAmsterdam]

Journal writing at its worst.

It has not confirmed.

Indeed;

The new work also helps rule out a competing theory of gravity that seeks to do away with the need for bizarre concepts like dark matter and dark energy that have irked some scientists. This research indicates those pesky ideas may be here to stay.

Agreed! Some scientists and me agree that these are bizarre concepts.

To test this theory over distances up to 3.5 billion light-years from Earth, researchers analyzed a survey of about 70,000 galaxies. The scientists combined three different measurements. First, they calculated the weak gravitational lensing caused by the galaxies – that is, they measured how much the galaxies' mass was bending light from other galaxies around them by noting the average distortion of the surrounding galaxies' shapes.

Isn't that an assumption that gravitational lensing of yours? I thought that was a lively discussion. But again, I'm not a scientist. Btw, could you point me to a lab experiment that confirms gravitational lensing?

Solid support

While general relativity was already pretty well accepted among physicists, the new findings offer more solid support for the theory.

"It's good to know that general relativity is consistent," Reyes told SPACE.com. "Now we have something to hold on to saying the universe really works that way."

Hold on to what? A thread?

Okay, mister scientist, explain me how the forces of gravity are transferred then???