“This indirect but convincing discovery garnered a Nobel prize in 1993.” This statement comes from Stephen Hawking;
“This confirmation of general relativity won J. H. Taylor and R. A. Hulse the Nobel Prize in 1993. It will take about three hundred million years for them to collide. “ (Stephen Hawking:A Brief History Of Time).
What Stephen Hawking wrote above was sort of hopeful, or may be a joke. In facts, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Taylor and Hulse in 1993 for the discovery of a new type of pulsar; and nothing to do with general relativity.
“1993 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation” (www.nobelprize.org).
A direct confirmation of general relativity had been expected since 1921; Einstein received a Nobel prize in1921 for photoelectric effect, not for relativity. At that time the Nobel Committe wrote:
“without taking into account the value that will be accorded your relativity and gravitation theories after these are confirmed in the future”
Nobel Committe statement wil be eternal, because the new evidence has been found in 2010 that general relativity is not valid. There are more than 25 articles refute Einstein’s relativity in this site, you can read about it.
Einstein’s gravity was totally wrong. General relativity is not valid. Hypothesis and test of general relativity are closely related to astronomy, especially celestial navigation. If you would like to make sure general relativity is not valid, physics training is needed; but more importantly (especially for GR) is celestial navigation training.
