What if what you know isn't so...

FTA:  General relativity underpins our understanding of gravity: everything from the age of the stars in the universe, to the GPS signals we use to find out way around, is based on Einstein's equations

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'If general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down,' said co-author Saran Tunyasuvunakool, also a PhD student from DAMTP .

'It would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the universe.'

If Einstein is proven wrong, an alternative way of explaining the universe would then need to be found.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3453739/A-five-dimensional-black-hole-break-theory-relativity-Simulation-suggests-strange-rings-defy-physics-exist.html#ixzz40cUIW84U
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