There are still parts to relativity. One theory can't be simply accepted when another theory is proven because it is similar and in some way connected. Each part of the theory must be scientifically verified. The entire existence of this experiment is counter to your logic and explanation. Why is this one part of relativity being tested specifically, if we must simply assume it is true because time dilation is true.
I believe in the scientific method, I believe in observation. If this experiment is verifiable and repeatable, then it is true and only then. Its you clowns that are saying shit like we already knew this was true because some old guy imagined it. I can't believe you turds think that is science, or are somehow trying to say you were right when my stance from the beginning has been "I will wait for real data". Now that there is some data, I have formed an opinion, as promised. My opinion on the subject has swayed some, but my stance on how I look at it is completely unchanged from the beginning.
Wrong. You are dumb. Stop trying to co-opt and bastardize the scientific method to fit your preconceived notion about how the universe works. Educate yourself, because your breed of stupid is a parasite that infects all of humanity.
Boom!
Einstien's Field Equations (EFE)describe General Relativity in its entirety. From this single equation (which condenses his original 10 equations) you can derive many different solution sets, and hence observable effects. Many of these effects have been directly
tested and observed.
Take density to infinity and the limit of gravity approaches infinity as well. We call these objects 'dark stars', or '
black holes'. One of the first solution sets to the EFE found by Karl Schwarzchild predicted black holes. The Schwarzchild radius of black holes is named in his honor. Black holes have been directly observed through their effects on light passing between us and distant stars in the form of
gravitational lensing.
As for the speed of gravity, it was predicted and confirmed to be roughly equivalent to that of light. The LIGO data is just the latest proof of the speed of propagation of gravity. Want one a little closer to home?
Here, earth's ocean and terrestrial tides have a phase delay from the bodies that influence them due to a finite speed of propagation.
General relativity is the best system of equations in the history of man that describes all of spacetime on large scales. Everything else is just a simplification. Take those EFE and simplify and you get Newtonian classical mechanics, similar to how in the physics of electromagnetics you can simplify
Maxwell's Equationsdown to
Ohm's Law.
Ohm's law is an empirical law, a generalization from many experiments that have shown that current is approximately proportional to electric field for most materials. It is less fundamental than Maxwell's equations and is not always obeyed.
The history of science is littered with stories in which we have found the most basic, simplified formulations first. And when we push those formulas to their limit we moved to discover the more fundamental theories that are more encompassing of the observations we find.
So go out and educate yourself. Read a
bookif you don't like wiki links. And when you're done with that one
read another.
The ultimate quest in all of this is to find the system of equations that unite all the fundamental interactions of the universe:
Strong Theory(described largely by quantum mechanics and currently not at all compatible with Relativity).
Electroweak Theory(union of weak force and electromagnetics)
Gravity (described in the aforementioned General Relativity).
There are candidate theories, the most known by far is String Theory. The main problem it suffers from is at current energy levels it looks like all the existing more simplified independent theories. We need particle accelerators
orders of magnitude more powerfulto probe and observe effects that would prove it is the more fundamental theory.
