11 discoveries that confirmed and challenged Einstein's theory of general relativity
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Brandon Specktor
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A brief listicle-style article highlighting 10 scientific discoveries that confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity over the past century, plus one anomaly that challenges it. The article frames Einstein as a visionary whose 1915 predictions have been repeatedly validated by modern observations.
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· 3 pulledLegendary physicist Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time.
Despite the technical limitations of his time, Einstein published his famous theory of general relativity in 1915, which made predictions about the nature of the universe that would be proven accurate time and again for more than 100 years to come.
Here are 10 recent observations that proved Einstein was right about the nature of the cosmos a century ago — and one that proved him wrong.
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