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Old 09-March-2005, 01:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Kristophe
Strangely enough, I actually have Taylor's paper sitting in front of me for unrelated reasons. To see just how accurate GR's predictions are in the case of PSR 1939 + 16 are astounding.
Yeah, I was amazed that the graphs of the prediction and the observations are virtually the same. (the first few years are a bit off, but I think they didn't really have good enough data at that point).
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