You can just concede you can't answer the questions, nobody would ridicule you for it, in fact, quite the opposite, you'd garner quite a lot of respect.
From
https://www.space.com/41077-einstein-general-relativity-survives-test.html :
"Like all scientific theories, general relativity makes testable predictions. One of the most important is the "equivalence principle" — the notion that all objects fall in the same way, no matter how big they are or what they're made of. [
Einstein's Theory of Relativity Explained (Infographic)]
Researchers have confirmed the equivalence principle many times on Earth — and, famously, on the moon. In 1971,
Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously; the two hit the gray lunar dirt at the same time. (On Earth, of course, the feather would flutter to the ground much later than the hammer, having been held up by our atmosphere.)
But it's tough to know if the equivalence principle applies in all situations — when the objects involved are incredibly dense or massive, for example. This wiggle room has given hope to adherents of alternative gravity theories, though such folks
remain in the minority.
The new study could take some of the air out of their optimism. An international team of astronomers tested the equivalence principle under extreme conditions: a system composed of two superdense stellar corpses known as
white dwarfs and an even denser neutron star."
"The system in question, known as PSR J0337+1715, is located 4,200 light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Taurus. The pulsar, which rotates 366 times per second, co-orbits on the interior with one of the white dwarfs; the pair circles a common center of mass every 1.6 Earth days. This duo is in a 327-day orbit with the other white dwarf, which lies much farther away.
The pulsar packs 1.4 times the sun's mass into a sphere the size of Amsterdam, whereas the interior white dwarf harbors just 0.2 solar masses and is about the size of Earth. So, they're very different objects — but they should be pulled by the outer white dwarf in the same way if the equivalence principle is on the money.
The researchers tracked the pulsar's movements by monitoring its radio-wave emissions. They did this for six years, using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
"We can account for every single pulse of the neutron star since we began our observations," study leader Anne Archibald, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, said in a statement. "And we can tell its location to within a few hundred meters. That is a really precise track of where the neutron star has been and where it is going."
A violation of the equivalence principle would manifest as a distortion in the pulsar's orbit — a difference between the neutron star's path and that of its interior white-dwarf companion. This distortion would cause the pulsar radiation to arrive at a slightly different time than expected.
But the researchers didn't detect any such distortion.
"If there is a difference, it is no more than 3 parts in a million," co-author Nina Gusinskaia, a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam, said in the same statement.
"Now, anyone with an alternative theory of gravity has an even narrower range of possibilities that their theory has to fit into in order to match what we have seen," Gusinskaia added. "Also, we have improved on the accuracy of the best previous test of gravity, both within the solar system and with other pulsars, by a factor of about 10."
Because this will totally lose you & you'll just say some retarded nonsense about how some different state past will look exactly the same as exactly the same state past would, this just wouldn't be possible to show Einstein's Theory of Relativity to be so accurate in any other state. Your different state past would have to have exactly the same gravity acting on exactly the same radiowave emissions in exactly the right measures to look like exactly the same result we'd predict with Relativity - essentially your "different state past" would have to be the same state past in every respect for this to match, the very thing these researchers were testing!
lol!
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele–Keating_experiment :
"The
Hafele–Keating experiment was a test of the
theory of relativity. In October 1971,
Joseph C. Hafele, a physicist, and
Richard E. Keating, an astronomer, took four cesium-beam
atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world, first eastward, then westward, and compared the clocks against others that remained at the
United States Naval Observatory. When reunited, the three sets of clocks were found to disagree with one another, and their differences were consistent with the predictions of special and general relativity."
"According to
special relativity, the rate of a clock is greatest according to an observer who is at rest with respect to the clock. In a frame of reference in which the clock is not at rest, the clock runs more slowly, as expressed by the
Lorentz factor. This effect, called
time dilation, has been confirmed in many
tests of special relativity, such as the
Ives–Stilwell experiment and
experimental testing of time dilation.
[1] Considering the Hafele–Keating experiment in a frame of reference at rest with respect to the center of the earth, a clock aboard the plane moving eastward, in the direction of the Earth's rotation, had a greater velocity (resulting in a relative time loss) than one that remained on the ground, while a clock aboard the plane moving westward, against the Earth's rotation, had a lower velocity than one on the ground.
[2]"
"
General relativity predicts an additional effect, in which an increase in gravitational potential due to altitude speeds the clocks up. That is, clocks at higher altitude tick faster than clocks on Earth's surface. This effect has been confirmed in many
tests of general relativity, such as the
Pound–Rebka experiment and
Gravity Probe A. In the Hafele–Keating experiment, there was a slight increase in gravitational potential due to altitude that tended to speed the clocks back up. Since the aircraft flew at roughly the same altitude in both directions, this effect was approximately the same for the two planes, but nevertheless it caused a difference in comparison to the clocks on the ground.
[2]"
"
Results
The results were published in
Science in 1972:
[3][4]
|_________ |__Predicted nanoseconds gained ___|________ __|____________|
|_________ | _________Predicted _____ |________|_Measured_| _Difference_ |
|_________ | Gravitational | Kinematic _ |_ Total__|___________|____________|
|_________ | _______________________ |________|________ __|____________|
|eastward _| ___ +144 ±14 | __ −184 ±18 |_−40 ±23 |___ −59 ±10 | ______0.76 σ |
|westward_| ___ +179 ±18 | ___ +96 ±10 | +275 ±21 |___+273 ±7 | ______0.09 σ |
And of course, knowing you can't put it together, this is showing how we know Relativity is accurate and why what we measure using other information in conjunction with these General & Special Relativity calculations, give us a known useful and predictive framework with which to observe distant objects and make accurate predictions that could only work in a same state past.
From
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chador...ts-that-show-relativity-is-real/#5e168b022999 :
"Observing such "gravitational lensing" would require a really fortuitous alignment of objects on the sky, but the universe is "vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big," in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, and such alignments do, in fact, exist. One of the prettiest is seen in the image above, a Hubble telescope picture of two galaxies. Yes, there are five dots, but the outer four are, in fact, images of a single very bright galaxy located behind the fainter central dot (dramatically confirmed recently by
seeing "replays" of a supernova in the lensed images). The middle galaxy bends light from the distant one to create the multiple images dubbed the "Einstein cross" by astronomers with marketing savvy.
There are lots of gravitational lenses known, and measuring these has become a useful tool for other areas of astronomy, even including
searches for extrasolar planets. The image above is simple of of the most dramatic and aesthetic instances of the bending of light by massive objects."
The above is in relation to an image linked here at
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/chadorzel/files/2015/07/Einstein_cross.jpg
The below text is in reference to this plotted graph against predicted graph (aligns perfectly
) at
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/chadorzel/files/2015/07/hulse_taylor_pulsar.jpg :
"The most dramatic consequences of general relativity involve huge masses in compact spaces, which are really difficult to generate on Earth. Starting in 1967 with the discovery of the first pulsar by
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, though, radio astronomers have had the ability to observe some of these directly. After a brief period when the regular, repeating signal from pulsars was thought to be artificial, astronomers realized these were likely rapidly rotating neutron stars, sending beams of radio waves out into the universe thanks to the rapid motion of charged particles near the magnetic poles of the star. These are not perfectly aligned with the rotation axis (just like Earth's magnetic poles) and as the star spins, they sweep across the sky like the beam from a lighthouse, and to a distant observer appear as regular "flashes" of light.
In 1974, Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor spotted a
new pulsar and from small shifts in the frequency of the pulses deduced that it is rapidly orbiting a second object; from the rotation speed and size of the orbit, they determined that the other object was most likely also a neutron star (we don't see pulses from that one, probably because its poles are pointed in a direction such that the beams don't hit us). The orbital period is about eight hours, so they got to see lots of orbits, and measure the orbital parameters very well.
Such a system of huge, rapidly moving objects ought to produce gravitational waves, a stretching and compression of spacetime predicted by Einstein's general relativity. These gravitational waves, in turn, should carry off some energy, causing the orbit of the pulsar to decay over time, as the two pulsars spiral together toward an eventual collision. Observations over a period of many years, shown in the graph above, agree beautifully with the prediction of general relativity for how the orbit ought to change due to this energy loss. These observations earned Hulse and Taylor the
1993 Nobel Prize in Physics."
Again, here is Einstein's Relativity predicting and accurately modelling the subsequent observations in two unrelated scenarios that rely entirely on a set of conditions that are identical to what we've demonstrated here and now. The article talks about gravitational waves that had yet to be detected, which of course have since been detected.
This last link,
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/testing-time-asymmetry-early-universe was something I included for lurkers, rather than you. It'd no doubt go right over your head, but to anyone who wanted to hear some specialists in theoretical and experimental physicists discussing the early universe and the spacetime that came about, how it relates to what we know, what we expect to be able to find out about it, etc. then there's an overload in this 2 hours and 24 minute talk.
So there you go - All of the Evidence, All of it, supports a same state past, a state for which we wouldn't be able to make such accurate predictions tested and passing so often as has been the case. Your dreary old tired assertion of some different state past nonsense could only work if it were all of the same conditions as we experience here and now. If it weren't, these predictions simply wouldn't be predictable. The fact is, your different state past fantasy would likely render the rest of the universe invisible to us, let alone give us wildly inaccurate observations to what we'd predict and then expect to see.
Now, your assertion that some undetectable yet identical in every observable way "different state past" existed, has no foundation or support in any way. Your complete resistance to the reality you've been presented makes you literally an irrational person basing their belief on an interpretation of your religion that's untenable in every way.
No wonder nobody tries to talk sense to you...
