Einstein theory

“Einstein Theory Triumphs,” a subhead added.

The New York Times followed suit with a front-page story on November 10: “Lights All Askew in the Heavens . . . Einstein Theory Triumphs.”

The detection of gravitational waves, announced on Thursday, proves an Albert Einstein theory right.

“The description of this observation is beautifully described in the Einstein theory of general relativity formulated 100 years ago and comprises the first test of the theory in strong gravitation. It would have been wonderful to watch Einstein’s face had we been able to tell him,” Rainer Weiss, an emeritus professor of physics at MIT who was part of the team that originally proposed building LIGO, said in a statement.

The enthusiastic advocates of the Einstein theory hold that, as Newton proved the three laws of Kepler to be special cases of his general law, so the "universal relativity theory" will enable eventually the Newtonian law to be deduced from the Einstein theory.