general relativity

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Apparently extra police had to be called in to control a crowd of 4,500 who “broke down iron gates and mauled each other” at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to hear an explanation of general relativity.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity unveiled a dynamic and bizarre cosmos | Elizabeth Quill | February 3, 2021 | Science News
Rival research groups’ computer codes are now agreeing on how supernova shock waves evolve, while simulations have advanced so far that even the effects of Einstein’s notoriously intricate general relativity are being included.
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas | Thomas Lewton | January 21, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
Now he glimpsed it again in the mathematics of general relativity.
When Einstein Tilted at Windmills - Issue 93: Forerunners | Amanda Gefter | November 18, 2020 | Nautilus
Einstein constructed general relativity with the express purpose of eliminating nonlocality from physics.
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End | George Musser | October 29, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
You can think about changing Einstein’s equations of general relativity in two ways.
The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts | Thomas Lewton | August 18, 2020 | Quanta Magazine

For that reason, researchers have developed a framework to describe quantum theory in combination with general relativity.
Black Holes Exist. So Does Bad Science | Matthew R. Francis | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The equations of general relativity unambiguously predict event horizons forming if mass is sufficiently concentrated.
Black Holes Exist. So Does Bad Science | Matthew R. Francis | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

General Relativity

[ jĕn′ər-əl ]

A geometrical theory of gravity developed by Albert Einstein in which gravity's effects are a consequence of the curvature of four-dimensional space-time. According to this theory, the energy and momentum of all matter and radiation cause curvature in space-time, in a way similar to the creation of electric and magnetic fields by electric charges and currents. This curvature also opens the possibility that the universe is closed, having finite volume but without any boundary. Among the many experimentally confirmed consequences of General Relativity are the perihelion precession of the planet Mercury, the bending of light in a gravitational field, and the slowing of time in a gravitational field. See also closed universe equivalence principle Special Relativity.

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