{"id":181432,"date":"2024-01-26T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/startling-signs-of-gravitys-laws-breaking-down-detected-in-twin-stars"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:24:03","slug":"startling-signs-of-gravitys-laws-breaking-down-detected-in-twin-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/startling-signs-of-gravitys-laws-breaking-down-detected-in-twin-stars","title":{"rendered":"Startling Signs of Gravity\u2019s Laws Breaking Down Detected in Twin Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startling-signs-of-gravitys-laws-breaking-down-detected-in-twin-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1,859, French astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tests_of_general_relativity#Perihelion_precession_of_Mercury\">detected something strange<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mercury\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mercury<\/a> deviated in its dance around the Sun, defying the orderly precession predicted by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_mechanics\">Newtonian physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This odd anomaly couldn\u2019t be explained by unknown planets tugging at Mercury\u2019s orbit; only by physicist Albert Einstein\u2019s 1915 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\">general theory of relativity<\/a>, which describes how gravity creates curves in the fabric of space-time.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s general theory has held strong in the century since, but there are a few things about the Universe his mind-bending model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/evidence-of-modified-gravity-may-exist-within-earth-itself-researchers-say\">can\u2019t explain<\/a>. It breaks down in the centers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> and at the dawn of the Universe, for example, and doesn\u2019t fit very easily with quantum mechanics, leading some physicists to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternatives_to_general_relativity\">ponder alternative takes<\/a> on how gravity works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1,859, French astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier detected something strange: Mercury deviated in its dance around the Sun, defying the orderly precession predicted by Newtonian physics. This odd anomaly couldn\u2019t be explained by unknown planets tugging at Mercury\u2019s orbit; only by physicist Albert Einstein\u2019s 1915 general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181432","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}