Of course the amazing thing is that the analysis of this new binary pulsar improves what was an already compelling comparison in 1993. I know I've linked to it many times before, but forgive me if I direct people once again to the Particle Data Group's review of Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory. It's intended for physicists and astronomers, so some may find it hard going, but its summary of the current state of tests of GR (complete with references to the original papers) is useful.
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"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." - William Thompson, 1st Baron Lord Kelvin
"If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" - Tweedledee
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli
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