DAILY STAR
Scientists finally have proof that a prediction made by legendary boffin Albert Einstein using his groundbreaking general theory of relativity is correct.
Decades ago, German scientist Einstein predicted that time ran in “extreme slow motion” when the universe was born and that it dramatically sped up as it aged.
Now, scientists have managed to find proof that the enlightened physicist’s prediction was correct, after they managed to “observe” the near-beginnings of the universe.
Aussie physicists used bright quasars, super-bright regions at the centre of galaxies that surround supermassive black holes, as a kind of “space clock”, allowing them to measure how time flowed at the beginning of the universe.
“Looking back to a time when the universe was just over a billion years old, we see time appearing to flow five times slower,” Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney, lead author on the new research, told the Independent.
“If you were there, in this infant universe, one second would seem like one second – but from our position, more than 12 billion years into the future, that early time appears to drag,” he added.
