LISA Could Prove Einstein Was Right

Sky News

A new European Space Agency (ESA) project could finally prove whether Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity is right or wrong.

he ESA mission, to be launched in collaboration with NASA, will send three spacecraft, flying in triangular formation five million kilometres apart and 50 million kilometres from Earth, into space.

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will determine if gravity is a form of wave energy, as predicted by Einstein.

LISA will also be able to detect the motions of neutron stars, white dwarfs, ordinary stars, or black holes in our Galaxy, and the merging of black holes where distant galaxies have collided.

It is hoped that LISA will also be able to answer questions which have vexed scientists for centuries - how did the Universe begin? Does time have a beginning and an end? Does space have edges?

Thats some pretty nice questions to get answers to, particulaly does space have edges.

And if gravity is not a form of wave energy as einstein predicted? do we chuck his other theories in the trash?