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Describe two observational tests that support general relativity.
 
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In the context of life in the universe, which of the following discoveries of astronomy suggests that the processes that formed life on Earth could have occurred elsewhere?
 
  A) the universe is very old
  B) the laws of physics are the same everywhere
  C) the universe is very large
  D) the chemical elements that make up life on Earth are common


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Many possible answers, including: experiments in gravitational time dilation, observations of gravitational redshift, observations of gravitational lenses, evidence from binary pulsars for gravitational waves.

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