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Experimental Tests of Relativity: Structures & Vocabulary

Relativity has survived a century of increasingly precise tests spanning Solar-System dynamics, atomic clocks, binary pulsars, gravitational lensing, and gravitational-wave observations. Relativity tests constrain alternative theories, validate technology such as GPS timing models, and search for departures that could reveal new physics beyond general relativity.

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Relativity has survived a century of increasingly precise tests spanning Solar-System dynamics, atomic clocks, binary pulsars, gravitational lensing, and gravitational-wave observations.

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Each test isolates a prediction where relativistic spacetime differs measurably from Newtonian or alternative-gravity expectations.

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