• nnjwwl@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure what your definition of experimental proof is. There have been many experiments to test General Relativity over the past 100 years. As far as I know none of those experiments have found significant disagreement with the theory.

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      21 hours ago

      Here’s a paper about testing einstein’s theory:

      https://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.1731

      It is an older paper, but aftet a skim the only significant missing experiment is LIGO. At the scales which GR is fundamentally concerned we simply do not have sufficient data or technology to test.

      If we had tested everything that could be for GR or it had no contraditions we wouldn’t be creating modified theories of gravity or proposing new constants to try solve things, or trying to come up with some quantum theory of gravity.