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The researchers tracked the pulsar's movements by monitoring its radio-wave emissions. They did this for six years, using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. "We can account for every single pulse of the neutron star since we began our observations," study leader Anne Archibald, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, said in a statement. "And we can tell its location to within a few hundred meters. That is a really precise track of where the neutron star has been and where it is going."
A violation of the equivalence principle would manifest as a distortion in the pulsar's orbit — a difference between the neutron star's path and that of its interior white-dwarf companion. This distortion would cause the pulsar radiation to arrive at a slightly different time than expected. But the researchers didn't detect any such distortion. "If there is a difference, it is no more than 3 parts in a million," co-author Nina Gusinskaia, a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam, said in the same statement.
The pulsar, which rotates 366 times per second, co-orbits on the interior with one of the white dwarfs; the pair circles a common center of mass every 1.6 Earth days. This duo is in a 327-day orbit with the other white dwarf, which lies much farther away.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: DoubleDNH
I kinda think Einstein is over rated..
Sure he had one of the best realizations in human history.... or maybe he just made a leap and was accidentally right lol..
That said I don’t think he could polish issac Newton’s boots..
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: DoubleDNH
I kinda think Einstein is over rated..
Sure he had one of the best realizations in human history.... or maybe he just made a leap and was accidentally right lol..
That said I don’t think he could polish issac Newton’s boots..