{"id":149908,"date":"2022-11-10T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-tested-einsteins-relativity-on-a-cosmic-scale-and-found-something-odd"},"modified":"2022-11-10T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T05:22:17","slug":"scientists-tested-einsteins-relativity-on-a-cosmic-scale-and-found-something-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-tested-einsteins-relativity-on-a-cosmic-scale-and-found-something-odd","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Tested Einstein\u2019s Relativity on a Cosmic Scale, And Found Something Odd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-tested-einsteins-relativity-on-a-cosmic-scale-and-found-something-odd2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything in the Universe has gravity \u2013 and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-einsteins-general-theory-of-relativity-killed-off-common-sense-physics-50042\">Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity<\/a> has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it doesn\u2019t seem to apply perfectly on all scales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">General relativity<\/a> has passed many years of observational tests, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/total-solar-eclipse-100-years-ago-proved-einsteins-general-relativity-180972278\/\">Eddington\u2019s measurement<\/a> of the deflection of starlight by the Sun in 1919 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-what-are-gravitational-waves-53239\">recent detection of gravitational waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in the Universe has gravity \u2013 and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it doesn\u2019t seem to apply perfectly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}