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Theory of relativity (2,956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and published in 1905 and 1915, respectively. Special relativity

Time travel (8,559 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is well understood within the framework of special relativity and general relativity. However, making one body advance or delay more than a few milliseconds

Introduction to general relativity (9,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed

Black hole (18,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

capable of possessing enough energy to escape it. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to

Gravity (7,367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Einstein developed a theory of general relativity which was able to accurately model Mercury's orbit. In general relativity, the effects of gravitation are

List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein (4,126 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

20th century, best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics, especially

History of general relativity (4,499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915

Jürgen Ehlers (5,777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity

Quantum gravity (6,684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

modifies the understanding of concepts like time and space. Although general relativity is highly regarded for its elegance and accuracy it has limitations:

Space (4,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Einstein's theory of general relativity, space around gravitational fields deviates from Euclidean space. Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed

Wormhole (6,824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

exterior region to make it to the other exterior region. According to general relativity, the gravitational collapse of a sufficiently compact mass forms a

Tests of general relativity (12,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert

Newton's law of universal gravitation (3,709 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Newton's law has later been superseded by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, but the universality of the gravitational constant is intact and

Two-body problem in general relativity (6,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The two-body problem in general relativity (or relativistic two-body problem) is the determination of the motion and gravitational field of two bodies

Penrose diagram (1,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

infinity. It is an extension (suitable for the curved spacetimes of e.g. general relativity) of the Minkowski diagram of special relativity where the vertical

Principle of relativity (1,678 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

same form in all inertial frames of reference. In the framework of general relativity the Maxwell equations or the Einstein field equations have the same

Theory of everything (6,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theories upon which all modern physics rests are general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity is a theoretical framework that only focuses

The Meaning of Relativity (1,772 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

overview of the physics and mathematics of general relativity. Einstein explained his goal in the preface of the book's German edition by stating he "wanted

Gravitoelectromagnetism (3,470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

valid under certain conditions, to the Einstein field equations for general relativity. Gravitomagnetism is a widely used term referring specifically to

Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation (1,959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, the Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation (HJEE) or Einstein–Hamilton–Jacobi equation (EHJE) is an equation in the Hamiltonian formulation

Frame fields in general relativity (4,996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A frame field in general relativity (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike

Free fall (2,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

where gravity is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity, where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature, a body in

Albert Einstein (22,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

that he published the following year laid out the implications of general relativity for the modeling of the structure and evolution of the universe as

The Large Scale Structure of Space–Time (969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the mathematician George Ellis. It is intended for specialists in general relativity rather than newcomers. In the mid-1970s, advances in the technologies

White hole (3,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime and singularity that cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter

A Brief History of Time (5,580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as the Big Bang and black holes. He discusses two major theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, that modern scientists use to describe the

Light cone (1,552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In special and general relativity, a light cone (or "null cone") is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event (localized to a single

Absolute space and time (2,205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity, Springer Science & Business Media, Bibcode:2007esti.book.....F, ISBN 9780387699462 Davies, Paul;

Mach's principle (3,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Einstein brought the principle into mainstream physics while working on general relativity. Indeed, it was Einstein who first coined the phrase Mach's principle

General Relativity and Gravitation (247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

General Relativity and Gravitation is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was established in 1970, and is published by Springer Science+Business

Spacetime (27,819 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

depends on the object's velocity relative to the observer.: 214–217 General relativity provides an explanation of how gravitational fields can slow the passage

Aether theories (1,882 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

light Cosmology Frame-dragging Tests of general relativity Tests of special relativity Isaac Newton, The Third Book of Opticks (2nd ed. 1718). James Clerk

Milne model (697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

change of coordinates. Milne developed this model independent of general relativity but with awareness of special relativity. As he initially described

Alcubierre drive (5,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

although the Alcubierre metric is consistent with Einstein's equations, general relativity does not incorporate quantum mechanics. Some physicists have presented

Geometrodynamics (1,707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Technically, its goal is to unify the fundamental forces and reformulate general relativity as a configuration space of three-metrics, modulo three-dimensional

United States gravity control propulsion research (5,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1974. The names of many contributors to general relativity and those of the golden age of general relativity have appeared among documents about the institutions

Gravitational lens (5,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

predicts the bending of light, but only half of that predicted by general relativity. Orest Khvolson (1924) and Frantisek Link (1936) are generally credited

Schwarzschild metric (5,027 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field

Surface gravity (2,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.044031. S2CID 117749566. Wald, Robert (1984). General Relativity. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-87033-5. A. B. Nielsen;

The Emperor's New Mind (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interrelated subjects such as Newtonian physics, special and general relativity, the philosophy and limitations of mathematics, quantum physics, cosmology

List of cosmologists (2,478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1939–2022) studied the mathematics of black holes and of vacua under general relativity John D. Barrow (1952–2020) popularized the anthropic cosmological

Tensor density (3,462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

presented here. In contrast to the meaning used in this article, in general relativity "pseudotensor" sometimes means an object that does not transform like

Stephen Hawking (17,992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specialising in general relativity and cosmology. In 1963, at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset

Superspace (2,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wheeler in an unrelated sense to describe the configuration space of general relativity; for example, this usage may be seen in his 1973 textbook Gravitation

Criticism of the theory of relativity (10,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

field equations of general relativity (see Relativity priority dispute). A collection of various criticisms can be found in the book Hundert Autoren gegen

Parameterized post-Newtonian formalism (3,338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In physics, precisely in the study of the theory of general relativity and many alternatives to it, the post-Newtonian formalism is a calculational tool

Gravitational acceleration (1,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

speed reached. Air resistance is neglected. In Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitation is an attribute of curved spacetime instead of being

The Road to Reality (1,090 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physics, discussing general relativity and quantum mechanics, and discusses the possible unification of these two theories. The book discusses the physical

Physical cosmology (7,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which were consistent with general relativity and the cosmological principle. The cosmological solutions of general relativity were found by Alexander Friedmann

Élie Cartan (3,369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics. He is widely regarded as one

Trapped surface (610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Closed trapped surfaces are a concept used in black hole solutions of general relativity which describe the inner region of an event horizon. Roger Penrose

Birkhoff's theorem (relativity) (728 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In general relativity, Birkhoff's theorem states that any spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum field equations must be static and asymptotically

Differential geometry (5,896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

differential geometry was used by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity, and subsequently by physicists in the development of quantum field

Lense–Thirring precession (2,849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, Lense–Thirring precession or the Lense–Thirring effect (Austrian German: [ˈlɛnsə ˈtɪrɪŋ]; named after Josef Lense and Hans Thirring)

Roy Kerr (1,337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His solution models the gravitational field outside an uncharged

Conservation of energy (6,045 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

definition of energy, conservation of energy can arguably be violated by general relativity on the cosmological scale. Ancient philosophers as far back as Thales

Cycles of Time (606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) model, which is an extension of general relativity but opposed to the widely supported multidimensional string theories

Arthur Eddington (6,251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

number of articles that announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I had severed many lines

Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates (1,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are a pair of coordinate systems for a Schwarzschild geometry (e.g. a spherically symmetric black

Hole argument (2,604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, the hole argument is an apparent paradox that much troubled Albert Einstein while developing his famous field equations. Some philosophers

Christoffel symbols (7,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adler, Maurice Bazin, Menahem Schiffer, Introduction to General Relativity (1965) McGraw-Hill Book Company ISBN 0-07-000423-4 (See section 2.1) Charles W

Gravitational wave (12,635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hulse–Taylor binary pulsar, which matched the decay predicted by general relativity as energy is lost to gravitational radiation. In 1993, Russell A.

Demetrios Christodoulou (1,036 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow. Christodoulou was born

History of gravitational theory (10,500 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

general relativity, the effects of gravitation are ascribed to spacetime curvature instead of to a force. The starting point for general relativity is

Time (12,906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms. General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through

Willem Jacob van Stockum (714 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity. Van Stockum was born in Hattem in the Netherlands. His father was

Asher Peres (957 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peres metric and researched the Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation in general relativity. With Mario Feingold, he published work in quantum chaos that is known

Universe (16,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

universe subsequently expanded and cooled. The model is based on general relativity and on simplifying assumptions such as the homogeneity and isotropy

Congruence (general relativity) (2,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In general relativity, a congruence (more properly, a congruence of curves) is the set of integral curves of a (nowhere vanishing) vector field in a four-dimensional

Speed of gravity (5,531 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

refers to the speed of a gravitational wave, which, as predicted by general relativity and confirmed by observation of the GW170817 neutron star merger,

Regge calculus (706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, Regge calculus is a formalism for producing simplicial approximations of spacetimes that are solutions to the Einstein field equation

Big Bang (15,920 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

constant over much of the age of the universe is of order 10−5. Also, general relativity has passed stringent tests on the scale of the Solar System and binary

Roger Penrose (7,800 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

College London. Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (2,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied. She was the

Karl Schwarzschild (3,035 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which

Faster-than-light (8,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quantum tunnelling. Some of these proposals find loopholes around general relativity, such as by expanding or contracting space to make the object appear

Ludwik Silberstein (1,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity

Relativity priority dispute (8,485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Einstein presented the theories of special relativity and general relativity in publications that either contained no formal references to previous

Heim theory (558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to bridge some of the disagreements between quantum mechanics and general relativity. The theory has received little attention in the scientific literature

Sean M. Carroll (3,273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for The Great Courses on cosmology

Moshe Carmeli (1,141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

development of the theory of cosmological general relativity, which extends Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity from a four-dimensional spacetime to

Tests of special relativity (3,402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gravitation. The latter lies in the domain of general relativity and the corresponding tests of general relativity must be considered. The predominant theory

Inertial frame of reference (7,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

An Introduction to Special and General Relativity, Springer Science & Business Media, pp. 209–210, Bibcode:2007esti.book.....F, ISBN 9780387699462 Ernest

Big Crunch (2,870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

astronomer Willem de Sitter to help demonstrate that the theory of general relativity would work with a static model; Willem demonstrated that his equations

Conservation of mass (3,431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the system. For systems that include large gravitational fields, general relativity has to be taken into account; thus mass–energy conservation becomes

Gravity Probe A (1,667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

time dilation, both predicted results of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Because of the bending of spacetime, an observer on Earth (in a lower

Black hole electron (1,134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quantum-mechanical in nature, any description purely in terms of general relativity is paradoxical until a better model based on understanding of quantum

Tevian Dray (622 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(born March 17, 1956) is an American mathematician who has worked in general relativity, mathematical physics, geometry, and both science and mathematics

Ehrenfest paradox (3,334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

rotating observers, and was important for Einstein's development of general relativity. Any rigid object made from real material that is rotating with a

Time dilation (6,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativity). When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due

Abraham H. Taub (640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist who made important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations. Taub

Ozsváth–Schücking metric (558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"An anti-Mach metric" (PDF), Recent Developments in General Relativity: 339–350, Bibcode:1962rdgr.book..339O Pirani, F. A. E. (1957), "Invariant Formulation

Alexander Friedmann (1,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

their analysis.[citation needed] This dynamic cosmological model of general relativity would come to form the standard for both the Big Bang and Steady State

Conformal map (2,511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jeans textbook Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. In general relativity, conformal maps are the simplest and thus most common type of causal

Frame of reference (3,440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is not universally adopted even in discussions of relativity. In general relativity the use of general coordinate systems is common (see, for example

Clifford Martin Will (549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Canadian-born theoretical physicist noted for his contributions to general relativity. Will was born in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1968, he earned a B.Sc. from

Conformal anomaly (1,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

formulated without reference to gravity, it becomes more powerful when general relativity is considered. A classically conformal theory with arbitrary background

Multilinear algebra (661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

this form to Albert Einstein, and in 1915, Einstein's publication on general relativity, explaining the precession of Mercury's perihelion, established multilinear

History of the Big Bang theory (2,604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

our own Milky Way. Also in that decade, Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity was found to admit no static cosmological solutions, given the basic

James Hartle (628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Hartle is known for his work in general relativity, astrophysics, and interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hartle was

Tipler cylinder (1,355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tipler cylinder was discovered as a solution to the equations of general relativity by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1936 and Kornel Lanczos in 1924, but

Teleparallelism (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

metric tensor as a byproduct. New teleparallel gravity theory (or new general relativity) is a theory of gravitation on Weitzenböck spacetime, and attributes

Foundations of Physics (422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

including: quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, special relativity, general relativity, string theory, M-theory, cosmology, thermodynamics, statistical physics

Absolute horizon (528 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, an absolute horizon is a boundary in spacetime, defined with respect to the external universe, inside which events cannot affect

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (5,701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equilibrium and the stability of ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium, general relativity, mathematical theory of black holes and theory of colliding gravitational

Kip Thorne (3,898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

work on observational, experimental, or astrophysical aspects of general relativity. Approximately 50 physicists have received PhDs at Caltech under Thorne's

Eddington experiment (4,870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Eddington experiment was an observational test of general relativity, organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington

Subtle is the Lord (4,687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the book's introduction that an illustration of Einstein's biography would have his work in special relativity building toward general relativity and

The Theoretical Minimum (591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quantum mechanics, special relativity and classical field theory, general relativity, cosmology, and statistical mechanics. Videos for all of these courses

Bahram Mashhoon (245 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1947) is an Iranian-American physicist known for his research in General Relativity. Mashhoon is a professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia

Richard C. Tolman (1,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. He was a professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics

Reissner–Nordström metric (4,265 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Introduction to General Relativity. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 395–401. ISBN 978-0-07-000420-7. Wald, Robert M. (1984). General Relativity. Chicago:

Preferred frame (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity, Springer Science & Business Media, Bibcode:2007esti.book.....F, ISBN 9780387699462 Gilson, James

Lorenzo Iorio (528 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lorenzo Iorio, born in Bari in, is an Italian physicist working in general relativity, gravitation and related topics in astronomy and astrophysics. Iorio

Gravitation (disambiguation) (118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

gravitation General relativity, the theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein Gravitation (book), a reference book about Einstein's theory of general relativity

Gravitational constant (5,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Newton's law of universal gravitation and in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. In Newton's law, it is the proportionality constant connecting the

Cambridge Algebra System (236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

It was initially used for computations in celestial mechanics and general relativity. The foundation code was written in Titan computer assembler.[better source needed]

Wolfgang Rindler (1,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

May 1924 – 8 February 2019) was a physicist working in the field of general relativity where he is known for introducing the term "event horizon", Rindler

Inverse-square law (3,361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

impacts physical laws, underpinning various fields such as cosmology, general relativity, and string theory. John D. Barrow, in his 2020 paper "Non-Euclidean

Friedwardt Winterberg (2,925 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University of Nevada, Reno. He is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas. His work in nuclear

Field (physics) (4,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

because of the ongoing utility of the field concept for research in general relativity and quantum electrodynamics). There are several examples of classical

Dennis W. Sciama (1,383 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"The Physical Foundations of General Relativity". Science Study Series. 58. New York: Doubleday. Bibcode:1969pfgr.book.....S. Short (104 pages) and clearly

Incandescence (novel) (667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

novel by Australian author Greg Egan. The book is based on the idea that the theory of general relativity could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilisation

Astrophysics (3,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

large-scale structure of matter in the universe; origin of cosmic rays; general relativity, special relativity, quantum and physical cosmology, including string

Shing-Tung Yau (10,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

geometry, algebraic geometry, enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, general relativity, and string theory, while his work has also touched upon applied mathematics

Unified field theory (1,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

expanded this theory of special relativity to a description of gravity, general relativity, using a field to describe the curving geometry of four-dimensional

Newton's laws of motion (15,363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

move at very high speeds (special relativity), are very massive (general relativity), or are very small (quantum mechanics). Newton's laws are often stated

Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet (897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1997, as shown in Hawking's 2001 book The Universe in a Nutshell. Thorne and Hawking argued that since general relativity made it impossible for black holes

Cosmological perturbation theory (2,050 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as N-body simulations, must be used. When deciding whether to use general relativity for perturbation theory, note that Newtonian physics is only applicable

Malcolm Ludvigsen (225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of a book on general relativity. Many of his paintings depict the beaches of the Yorkshire coast. Ludvigsen, Malcolm (1999). General Relativity: A Geometric

Conformal cyclic cosmology (1,694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model in the framework of general relativity and proposed by theoretical physicist Roger Penrose. In CCC, the universe

Nordström's theory of gravitation (6,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theoretical physics, Nordström's theory of gravitation was a predecessor of general relativity. Strictly speaking, there were actually two distinct theories proposed

John Hartnett (physicist) (1,855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

tests of the fundamental theories of physics, such as special and general relativity, measurement of drift in fundamental constants and their cosmological

Planck units (6,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the predictions of the Standard Model, quantum field theory and general relativity are not expected to apply, and quantum effects of gravity are expected

Dark star (Newtonian mechanics) (1,110 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

dark, hence the name. Dark stars are analogous to black holes in general relativity. During 1783 geologist John Michell wrote a letter to Henry Cavendish

Spacetime algebra (6,544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativistic physics, including the Dirac equation, Maxwell equation and General Relativity" and "reduces the mathematical divide between classical, quantum and

The Fabric of the Cosmos (1,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

entity?" In this chapter, concepts of both special relativity and general relativity are discussed, as well as their importance to the meaning of spacetime

Planck units (6,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the predictions of the Standard Model, quantum field theory and general relativity are not expected to apply, and quantum effects of gravity are expected

George David Birkhoff (2,182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dynamical systems, the four-color problem, the three-body problem, and general relativity. Today, Birkhoff is best remembered for the ergodic theorem. The George

Malcolm Ludvigsen (225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of a book on general relativity. Many of his paintings depict the beaches of the Yorkshire coast. Ludvigsen, Malcolm (1999). General Relativity: A Geometric

Four-tensor (1,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In physics, specifically for special relativity and general relativity, a four-tensor is an abbreviation for a tensor in a four-dimensional spacetime.

William Kingdon Clifford (4,209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

independent development. The book continues with a chapter "On the bending of space", the substance of general relativity. Clifford also discussed his

Virgo interferometer (16,804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interferometer designed to detect the gravitational waves predicted by general relativity. It is located in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa

Martin David Kruskal (2,916 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His most celebrated

Supergravity (4,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories

Bucket argument (3,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not pretend to address the question of "rotation relative to what?" General relativity dispenses with absolute space and with physics whose cause is external

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In general relativity, the Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term is a term that needs to be added to the Einstein–Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime

Singularity (721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

small change can cause a large effect Gravitational singularity, in general relativity, a point in which gravity is so intense that spacetime itself becomes

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King's College London, specialising in gravitational physics and general relativity. Pirani and Hermann Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989)

Novikov self-consistency principle (3,429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

travel, which is theoretically permitted in certain solutions of general relativity that contain what are known as closed timelike curves. The principle

Isotropic coordinates (1,179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

spherically symmetric spacetimes in metric theories of gravitation such as general relativity, but they can also be used in modeling a spherically pulsating fluid

Dark matter (15,257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is implied by gravitational effects which cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be seen. Such effects occur

Engelbert Schücking (405 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

York City. His research interests were theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and cosmology. Engelbert Levin Schücking was born on May 23, 1926

Kaluza–Klein theory (7,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published them in 1921. Kaluza presented a purely classical extension of general relativity to 5D, with a metric tensor of 15 components. Ten components are identified

Thomas precession (4,713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

flat spacetime of special relativity. In the curved spacetime of general relativity, Thomas precession combines with a geometric effect to produce de

Valentine Joseph (1,018 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

group of General Relativity specialists, under the guidance of Professor Felix Pirani, to work on developing Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Joseph

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In general relativity, the de Sitter–Schwarzschild solution describes a black hole in a causal patch of de Sitter space. Unlike a flat-space black hole

George F. R. Ellis (1,450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1989 to 1992 he served as president of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He is a past president of the International Society

History of field theory (1,078 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

need of a medium or luminiferous aether. Einstein also developed general relativity, in which spacetime was treated as a field and its curvature was the

Yuri Yappa (1,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics

Timeline of classical mechanics (1,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which conservation laws are deduced 1915 - Albert Einstein introduces general relativity 1952 - Parker develops a tensor form of the virial theorem 1954 -

The Mysterious Universe (477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theory of radiation, begun by Max Planck in 1900, to Albert Einstein's general relativity, and to the new theories of quantum mechanics of Heisenberg and Schrödinger

Peter Bergmann (948 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first textbook on general relativity, Introduction to the Theory of Relativity, with a foreword by Einstein. The second edition of this book was published

William B. Bonnor (683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist best known for his research into astrophysics, cosmology and general relativity. For most of his academic career he was a professor of mathematics

Black hole information paradox (8,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the predictions of quantum mechanics and general relativity are combined. The theory of general relativity predicts the existence of black holes that

Laurent Nottale (801 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativity theory. Nottale began his professional work in the domain of general relativity. He defended his PhD Thesis in June 1980, entitled "Perturbation of

Special relativity (21,429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

times for another. Until several years later when Einstein developed general relativity, which introduced a curved spacetime to incorporate gravity, the phrase

Asghar Qadir (2,113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematics and mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He has mentored several graduate students throughout

Petros Serghiou Florides (354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Local Organising Committee of the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, held in Dublin at the RDS Convention Centre from

N-body problem (8,605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

systems became an important n-body problem. The n-body problem in general relativity is considerably more difficult to solve due to additional factors

String theory (15,352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

important insight from general relativity. Others have disagreed with Smolin's characterization of string theory. In a review of Smolin's book, string theorist

Accelerating expansion of the universe (4,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dark-energy-dominated era roughly 5 billion years ago. Within the framework of general relativity, an accelerated expansion can be accounted for by a positive value

Instant Physics (107 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

from classical mechanics and thermodynamics to nuclear physics, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. It has proven very popular with the public

Hendrik Lorentz (4,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

significant contributions to fields ranging from hydrodynamics to general relativity. His most important contributions were in the area of electromagnetism

Gravitational collapse (1,621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

spacetime region from which not even light can escape. It follows from general relativity and the theorem of Roger Penrose that the subsequent formation of

Hermann Weyl (4,307 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of mathematics. He was one of the first to conceive of combining general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism. Freeman Dyson wrote that Weyl alone

Rest frame (390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

or system has minimum total energy. In both special relativity and general relativity it is essential to specify the rest frame of any time measurements

Starship (1,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

all in a manner consistent with the Einstein field equations of general relativity and without the introduction of wormholes. However, the actual construction

Curvature of Space and Time, with an Introduction to Geometric Analysis (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physics students on differential geometry, focusing on applications to general relativity. It was written by Iva Stavrov, based on a course she taught at the

Ignazio Ciufolini (616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Italian physicist active in the field of gravitational physics and general relativity. Ignazio Ciufolini graduated magna cum laude in 1980 at Sapienza University

Physics (10,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quantum field theory unified quantum mechanics and special relativity. General relativity allowed for a dynamical, curved spacetime, with which highly massive

Classical mechanics (5,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativity is needed. In cases where objects become extremely massive, general relativity becomes applicable. Some modern sources include relativistic mechanics

GRTensorII (218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a Maple package designed for tensor computations, particularly in general relativity. This package was developed at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario

Ronald Mallett (2,081 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

honors and distinctions. His research interests include black holes, general relativity, quantum cosmology, relativistic astrophysics and time travel. As

Curvature of Space and Time, with an Introduction to Geometric Analysis (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physics students on differential geometry, focusing on applications to general relativity. It was written by Iva Stavrov, based on a course she taught at the

Jürgen Renn (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece (with

Zero-energy universe (1,412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

S2CID 15413640. Rosen, Nathan (March 1994). "The energy of the universe". General Relativity and Gravitation. 26 (3): 319–321. Bibcode:1994GReGr..26..319R. doi:10

Komar mass (2,245 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

system is one of several formal concepts of mass that are used in general relativity. The Komar mass can be defined in any stationary spacetime, which

Relativistic angular momentum (10,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concepts that define angular momentum in special relativity (SR) and general relativity (GR). The relativistic quantity is subtly different from the three-dimensional

Quantum mechanics (12,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

electromagnetic interaction. Quantum electrodynamics is, along with general relativity, one of the most accurate physical theories ever devised. The full

Bernard F. Schutz (3,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist. He is well known for his research in Einstein's theory of general relativity, especially for his contributions to the detection of gravitational

Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1,150 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity. Christoffel was born on 10 November 1829 in Montjoie (now Monschau)

Gauge covariant derivative (4,475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quantum field theory and fluid dynamics and in a very special way general relativity. If a physical theory is independent of the choice of local frames

Orbital elements (3,162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to gravitational perturbations by other objects and the effects of general relativity. A Kepler orbit is an idealized, mathematical approximation of the

Menahem Max Schiffer (803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in many classical boundary value problems. And he coauthored a book on general relativity. Schiffer was a prolific author over his entire career, with 135

General relativity priority dispute (5,451 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Einstein's discovery of the gravitational field equations of general relativity and David Hilbert's almost simultaneous derivation of the theory using

C. V. Vishveshwara (771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Indian scientist and black hole physicist. Specializing in Einstein's General Relativity, he worked extensively on the theory of black holes and made major

Beverly Berger (576 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A. Isenberg, and Malcolm MacCallum, Berger is co-editor of the book General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective (Cambridge University

Carl H. Brans (685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

varies with time, a leading competitor of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The work of Brans and Dicke actually was closely related to earlier

Riemannian geometry (1,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which (in four dimensions) are the main objects of the theory of general relativity. Other generalizations of Riemannian geometry include Finsler geometry

Redshift (9,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

while gravitational redshifting implies the opposite conditions. In general relativity one can derive several important special-case formulae for redshift

Matter (9,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

purely gravity. This view is commonly held in fields that deal with general relativity such as cosmology. In this view, light and other massless particles

Orfeu Bertolami (247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theoretical physicist who works in problems of astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity and quantum gravity. He worked at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon

Killing vector field (4,721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Carroll, Sean (2004). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Addison

International Celestial Reference System and its realizations (2,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

satellite and whose axes are rotated to conform to the ICRF. Although general relativity implies that there are no true inertial frames around gravitating

Edwin F. Taylor (826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the book Spacetime Physics, published in 1965. Taylor and Wheeler later resumed their collaboration to produce an introduction to general relativity, published

Reza Mansouri (853 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Technology. His main research interest is cosmology, gravitation and general relativity. As an author he had written several books and papers on scientific

Jerzy Plebański (559 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

field of general relativity and mathematical physics, his first book with co-author Leopold Infeld was on the problem of motion in general relativity. He was

Timeline of materials technology (1,012 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vannoccio Biringuccio publishes first systematic book on metallurgy 1556 – Georg Agricola's influential book on metallurgy 1590 – Glass lenses are developed

Paul Dirac (8,927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

papers in those last twelve years of his life, including a short book on general relativity. His last paper (1984), entitled "The inadequacies of quantum

Euclidean geometry (7,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

early 19th century. An implication of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is that physical space itself is not Euclidean, and Euclidean space

Gullstrand–Painlevé coordinates (3,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 0-7167-0344-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: General relativity The River Model of

Richard M. Friedberg (999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

These include mathematical logic, number theory, solid state physics, general relativity, particle physics, quantum optics, genome research, and the foundations

Mechanical explanations of gravitation (3,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as viable theories within the mainstream scientific community and general relativity is now the standard model to describe gravitation without the use

Relativistic Euler equations (1,638 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

generalization of the Euler equations that account for the effects of general relativity. They have applications in high-energy astrophysics and numerical

Boltzmann equation (4,951 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

times far longer than the age of the universe. Its generalization in general relativity is L ^ G R = p α ∂ ∂ x α − Γ α β γ p β p γ ∂ ∂ p α , {\displaystyle

Hamiltonian constraint (3,745 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hamiltonian constraint of general relativity is an important non-trivial example. In the context of general relativity, the Hamiltonian constraint technically

Bernard Carr (441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

His research interests include the early universe, dark matter, general relativity, primordial black holes, and the anthropic principle. He completed

M-theory (7,711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

probability. A quantum theory of gravity is needed in order to reconcile general relativity with the principles of quantum mechanics, but difficulties arise when

Lorentz force (8,238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

{S} } to obtain the electromagnetic stress–energy tensor T used in general relativity. In terms of σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} and S {\displaystyle

Hilbert's sixth problem (1,181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Standard Model; General relativity, which describes space-time and gravity at macroscopic scale. Hilbert considered general relativity as an essential

Distance measure (2,495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of cosmology, these measures are calculated within the context of general relativity, where the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker solution is used to

Field propulsion (1,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

controversial concept of inertia and certain solutions to the equations for General Relativity. Experiments attempting to conclusively demonstrate this effect have

Neutron star (13,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sources. Bibcode:2010csxs.book.....L. Taylor, J. H.; Weisberg, J. M. (15 February 1982). "A new test of general relativity – Gravitational radiation and

Time Reborn (1,071 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physics and his religious justification), Albert Einstein's special and general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Part II describes Smolin's views (his "future"

Hyperbolic motion (relativity) (2,604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

of Relativity. Vol. 165. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-64152-X. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help) Galeriu, C. (2017) [2015]. "Electric charge in

Physics in the medieval Islamic world (1,861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

paradigm. This book encouraged other astronomers to develop new models to explain celestial movement better than Ptolemy. In al-Haytham's Book of Optics he

Noncommutative standard model (1,841 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

based on noncommutative geometry that unifies a modified form of general relativity with the Standard Model (extended with right-handed neutrinos). The

Maxwell's equations (7,877 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gravitational physics, are compatible with general relativity. In fact, Albert Einstein developed special and general relativity to accommodate the invariant speed

Erwin Schrödinger (6,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory. In his book What Is Life? Schrödinger

Clive W. Kilmister (880 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Brian Tupper (1959, King's College London, now professor emeritus of general relativity and cosmology at University of New Brunswick Fredericton [1]), Samuel

History of physics (14,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interactions at various collision energies, no theory reconciling general relativity with the Standard Model has yet been found, although supersymmetry

Worldbuilding (2,925 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Eddington's Space Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory (1920) to describe the thinking out of hypothetical worlds

Henry Brose (2,206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

edition of Freundlich’s book The foundations of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. In addition to his works on General Relativity, Brose published his translations

Henry Brose (2,206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

edition of Freundlich’s book The foundations of Einstein's Theory of Gravitation. In addition to his works on General Relativity, Brose published his translations

Erik Verlinde (1,419 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

between two masses and its surroundings; he also extrapolates this to general relativity and quantum mechanics. He said in an interview with the newspaper

Square Kilometre Array (6,651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

orbiting black holes, astronomers will be able to examine the limits of general relativity such as the behaviour of spacetime in regions of extremely curved

Black brane (840 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the equations[which?] that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended—and translationally

Richard H. Price (478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Price (born March 1, 1943) is an American physicist specializing in general relativity. Price graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1960, and went on

Schwarzschild geodesics (12,016 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In general relativity, Schwarzschild geodesics describe the motion of test particles in the gravitational field of a central fixed mass M , {\textstyle

Nathalie Deruelle (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

French physicist specializing in general relativity and known for her research on the two-body problem in general relativity and on cosmological perturbation

Let There Be Light (Smith book) (137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

via the Big Bang, general relativity, dark matter, cosmic acceleration, quantum mechanics, and free will, among other topics. The book attempts to clearly

Lee Smolin (2,895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

unification of quantum mechanics with general relativity which utilizes a reformulation of general relativity in the language of gauge field theories

Index of physics articles (T) (2,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tests of general relativity Tests of relativistic energy and momentum Tests of special relativity Tetrad formalism Tetrads in general relativity Tetragonal

Synchronous frame (6,191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

between two very close events that occur at the same moment of time. In general relativity this cannot be done, that is, one cannot define dl by just substituting

Anna Maria Nobili (267 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

accuracy of the equivalence principle lying at the foundation of general relativity and of other metric theories of gravity. Asteroid 552746 Annanobili

Jorge Pullin (1,816 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 0-521-65475-0. Lewandowski, Jerzy (1998), "Book Review: Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity", General Relativity and Gravitation, 30 (2): 339–340,

Laurence Kotlikoff (4,491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Policy (with Alan Auerbach), Cambridge University Press, 1987. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language" Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Sabelhaus

Lydia Bieri (634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effects. She is a professor

Baryon acoustic oscillations (3,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and w1 and one can constrain them with a chi-square technique. In general relativity, the expansion of the universe is parametrized by a scale factor a

Twin paradox (7,923 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lasenby (2006). General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists. Cambridge University Press. p. 227. ISBN 0-521-82951-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple

Scientific theory (6,865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

qualities are certainly true of such established theories as special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, the modern evolutionary synthesis

Thomas Willmore (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativistic cosmology, and gained his Ph.D. on Clock regraduations and general relativity as an external student of the University of London in 1943 [1]. In

Tired light (2,911 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not concord with general relativity. Edward Milne proposed an explanation compatible with special relativity but not general relativity that there was a

Rindler coordinates (7,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lass (1963), and in relation to both flat and curved spacetime of general relativity by Wolfgang Rindler (1960, 1966). For details and sources, see § History

Course of Theoretical Physics (1,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0-7506-2896-9. Volume 1 covers classical mechanics without special or general relativity, in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. Landau, Lev D.; Lifshitz

Belinfante–Rosenfeld stress–energy tensor (2,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hilbert stress–energy tensor that acts as the source of gravity in general relativity. Just as it is the sum of the bound and free currents that acts as

Born rigidity (2,377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

classes A and B. Attempts to extend the concept of Born rigidity to general relativity have been made by Salzmann & Taub (1954), C. Beresford Rayner (1959)

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

became the lingua franca of the subsequent theory of Albert Einstein's general relativity. In fact absolute differential calculus had a crucial role in developing

Newcomb's Tables of the Sun (918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

available to Newcomb. Also, the tables did not account for the effects of general relativity which was unknown at the time. Nevertheless, his tabulated values

Inertia (2,929 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reference frames. In general relativity, the concept of inertial motion got a broader meaning. Taking into account general relativity, inertial motion is

Relative (324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is a term used in physics, and especially in Galilean, special and general relativity, to denote that something is dependent on a reference frame, or that

Patrick du Val (797 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (130 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hawking discusses black hole thermodynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. Hawking also describes his life when he was

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony (434 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

detect the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. She tells the story of LIGO's two gravitational-wave observatories

Zero-point energy (27,132 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

source of major contention. Yet according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, any such energy would gravitate, and the experimental evidence from

Thanu Padmanabhan (3,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

part of Kerala University. He published his first research paper (on general relativity) when he was still a B.Sc. student, at the age of 20. He joined the

Kamalendu Deb Krori (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the former Principal of Cotton College. He pioneered research on general relativity in the North Eastern region of India and guided 16 scholars for their

Micro black hole (3,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

then the theory of general relativity is proven wrong and does not exist at these small distances. The rules of general relativity would be broken, as

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (4,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime. Roman was recommended in 2010 by

Victor Brumberg (818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. He is noted for his work on general relativity applied to celestial mechanics and ephemerides. He is currently living

Hans-Jürgen Treder (1,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was a German theoretical physicist and in the GDR, specializing in general relativity (and its extensions), astrophysics, and cosmology. He also had an

Golden age of physics (948 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

invented new physics apparatus for their lectures. Golden age of general relativity Golden age of cosmology Golden age (metaphor) Lulek, Lulek & Wal 2001

Inflation (cosmology) (12,792 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

predicted by Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaître from the theory of general relativity. It can be understood as a consequence of an initial impulse, which

Speed of light (15,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Einstein's General Relativity. Addison-Wesley. pp. 52–59. ISBN 978-981-02-2749-4. Hartle, J. B. (2003). Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity

Affine connection (7,683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hermann Weyl (who used the notion as a part of his foundations for general relativity). The terminology is due to Cartan and has its origins in the identification

Shiing-Shen Chern (6,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

branches of physics, including string theory, condensed matter physics, general relativity, and quantum field theory. Chern's surname (陳) is a common Chinese

Lorentz ether theory (10,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

However, these attempts were superseded because of Einstein's theory of general relativity, see "The shift to relativity". The non-existence of a generalization

The Universe in a Nutshell (194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics List of books on general relativity "The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking". Goodreads. goodreads

Theoretical physics (2,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

\mathrm {Ric} =kg} The equations for an Einstein manifold, used in general relativity to describe the curvature of spacetime A physical theory involves

Charles Dillon Perrine (2,373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

69. Perrine played an early role in the history of general relativity and tests of general relativity. The Argentine National Observatory led by Perrine

Step (332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Production, a UK nuclear fusion project STEP (satellite), to test general relativity STEP Library, a Bible software format ISO 10303 (.STEP), a CAD data-exchange

Basilis C. Xanthopoulos (1,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1990) was a Greek theoretical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his contributions to the study of colliding plane waves. Basilis

Gravity Research Foundation (1,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Foundation P.O. Box 81389, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-0004, USA", General Relativity and Gravitation, 40 (12): 2685–2686, Bibcode:2008GReGr..40.2685R,

Charles Dillon Perrine (2,373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

69. Perrine played an early role in the history of general relativity and tests of general relativity. The Argentine National Observatory led by Perrine

Gravity Research Foundation (1,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Foundation P.O. Box 81389, Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-0004, USA", General Relativity and Gravitation, 40 (12): 2685–2686, Bibcode:2008GReGr..40.2685R,

Mathematical physics (5,146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

subtleties involved with synchronisation procedures in special and general relativity (Sagnac effect and Einstein synchronisation). The effort to put physical

João Magueijo (619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

College London where he teaches undergraduates General Relativity and postgraduates Advanced General Relativity. In 1998, Magueijo teamed with Andreas Albrecht

Edward Arthur Milne (2,016 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

World-Structure (1935), proposed an alternative to Albert Einstein's general relativity theory. With McCrea (1934) he also showed that the 3 models which

Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity (5,913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relevant expansion parameter, has negative mass dimension rendering general relativity perturbatively nonrenormalizable. This has driven the search for nonperturbative

Cosmology (3,263 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1917 with Albert Einstein's publication of his final modification of general relativity in the paper "Cosmological Considerations of the General Theory of

Luminiferous aether (9,484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his foundational work on general relativity, Lorentz wrote a letter to him in which he speculated that within general relativity the aether was re-introduced

History of energy (1,168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

century until this was generally accepted. Émilie marquise du Châtelet in her book Institutions de Physique ("Lessons in Physics"), published in 1740, incorporated

Bernhard Riemann (2,927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

differential geometry, Riemann laid the foundations of the mathematics of general relativity. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians

Tim Palmer (physicist) (1,344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Physics from the University of Bristol and a Doctor of Philosophy in General Relativity Theory from the University of Oxford. Palmer’s research has focussed

Fictitious force (8,499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1988) McGraw-Hill Book Company ISBN 0-07-033484-6, Section 11.4; or: Adler, R., Bazin, M., & Schiffer, M. Introduction to General Relativity (New York, 1965)

Hawking radiation (6,786 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not yet been detected. First predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity, evidence for the astrophysical objects termed black holes began to

Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat (938 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theories. She is also known for her work on the history of special and general relativity. Marie-Antoinette Baudot was born on March 5, 1912, in Charolles,

Thomas W. Baumgarte (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist specializing in the numerical simulation of compact objects in general relativity. Baumgarte completed his BSc in 1992 at Ludwig Maximilian University

Abraham Zelmanov (1,690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lectures on General Relativity. American Research Press, Rehoboth (NM), 2007 (in print). Zelmanov A. L. and Agakov V. G. Elements of General Relativity. Nauka

Outline of physics (3,275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physics which describes the relationship between space and time. General Relativity - a geometric, non-quantum theory of gravitation. Special Relativity

Eternal return (3,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pp. 464–513. Tipler, Frank J. (1980). "General Relativity and the Eternal Return". Essays in General Relativity: A Festschrift for Abraham Taub. Academic

Georges Lemaître (4,777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the new idea that the universe is expanding, which he derived from General Relativity. This idea later became known as Hubble's law, even though Lemaître

Theoretical astronomy (3,866 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Newtonian theory of gravitation, considering that the effects of general relativity are weak for most celestial objects. Theoretical astronomy does not

Index of physics articles (C) (2,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

tensor Contour line Contributors to general relativity Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity Control moment gyroscope Control

Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (1,954 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1971. In July 1971, he attended the 6th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation at Copenhagen. For the last several years, Vaidya

Bo Thidé (779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

from Italy and Spain, Thidé discovered in 2010 a new phenomenon in General Relativity which allows the detection of spinning black holes by analysing the

Cosmography (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(2005). "Cosmography: Cosmology without the Einstein equations". General Relativity and Gravitation. 37 (9): 1541–1548. arXiv:gr-qc/0411131. Bibcode:2005GReGr

Lewis Ryder (266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in geometrical aspects of particle physics and its parallels with general relativity, and the possible existence and detection of torsion and curvature

Le Sage's theory of gravitation (11,272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

passive gravitational mass with inertial mass that was predicted by general relativity. For more historical information on the connection between gravitational

E. T. Whittaker (6,635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

special functions in pure mathematics as well as on electromagnetism, general relativity, numerical analysis and astronomy in applied mathematics and physics

Jørg Tofte Jebsen (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

presentation of the differential geometry used in general relativity. He also found time to write a popular book on Galileo Galilei and his struggle with the

The Evolution of Physics (860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and mechanics (pp. 202–209) The time-space continuum (pp. 209–220) General relativity (pp. 220–226). Booklist v. 34 (Apr. 15 1938). New York Herald Tribune

Otto Heckmann (1,143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

contributed to cosmology based on the fundamentals of general relativity, and in 1942 wrote the book Theorien der Kosmologie. Otto Heckmann was born to Agnes

Cornelius Lanczos (1,319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stockum dust. It is one of the simplest known exact solutions in general relativity and is regarded as an important example, in part because it exhibits

Rotating spheres (3,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not pretend to address the question of "rotation relative to what?" General relativity dispenses with absolute space and with physics whose cause is external

Valeria Ferrari (418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"Gravitational waves from neutron stars: promises and challenges", General Relativity and Gravitation, 43 (2): 409–436, arXiv:0912.0384, Bibcode:2011GReGr

Pedro G. Ferreira (635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

studied engineering from 1986–1991. While there, he taught himself general relativity. He studied for a PhD in theoretical physics at Imperial College London

Differentiable manifold (9,509 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

form the basis for physical theories such as classical mechanics, general relativity, and Yang–Mills theory. It is possible to develop a calculus for differentiable

Wolfgang Kundt (1,029 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

astrophysicist. He studied Theoretical Physics in Hamburg, centered on general relativity, and got his diploma in 1956 and his PhD in 1959, advised by Pascual

Corinne Manogue (485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Manogue (born March 3, 1955) is an American physicist who has worked in general relativity, mathematical physics, and physics education. She was elected a Fellow

1566 Icarus (2,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

understand general relativity, solar oblateness, and Yarkovsky drift. In its case, the perihelion precession caused by general relativity is 10.05 arcseconds

Emilio Elizalde (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Spanish physicist working in the fields of gravitational physics and general relativity. Of Basque heritage, he was born in Balaguer, about 25 km northeast

BKL singularity (20,980 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Wikibook General relativity has a page on the topic of: BKL singularity A Belinski–Khalatnikov–Lifshitz (BKL) singularity is a model of the dynamic

List of Jewish American mathematicians (700 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity, MacArthur Fellow (1991), Guggenheim Fellow (1997), Bôcher Memorial

Wave (7,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which are disturbances in spacetime that propagate according to general relativity; heat diffusion waves; plasma waves that combine mechanical deformations

Leonard I. Schiff (631 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pugh wrote papers which advocated using orbiting gyroscopes to test general relativity. Schiff teamed with fellow Stanford faculty Bob Cannon and Bill Fairbank

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the first dealing with special relativity, the second dealing with general relativity, and the third dealing with considerations on the universe as a whole

History of special relativity (16,641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

model and used it as the basis for his work on the foundations of general relativity. Today special relativity is seen as an application of linear algebra

Einstein Telescope (1,842 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by the Sardinia Region. Physics portal Astronomy portal Tests of general relativity EGO, the European Gravitational Observatory LIGO, two gravitational

Shift (492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mythology, folklore, and fairy tales Shift vector, in ADM formalism of General Relativity Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out Tax shift, a fiscal

Peter West (physicist) (1,652 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

theories in ten dimensions. These theories combine supersymmetry with general relativity, and they encode many of the properties of strings and branes. West

Tilman Sauer (1,748 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

international reputation as an expert on the history of the development of general relativity theory. At the Free University of Berlin, Sauer received in 1990 his

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1,135 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

has used this first binary pulsar to make high-precision tests of general relativity. Working with his colleague Joel Weisberg, Taylor has used observations

Shift (492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mythology, folklore, and fairy tales Shift vector, in ADM formalism of General Relativity Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out Tax shift, a fiscal

Derivations of the Lorentz transformations (11,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

collinear. In the fundamental branches of modern physics, namely general relativity and its widely applicable subset special relativity, as well as relativistic

Copernican Revolution (3,768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

time. This work was the basis of his next book, the Astronomia nova, which he published in 1609. The book argued heliocentrism and ellipses for planetary

LIGO (8,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

many scientists to test a component of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, the existence of gravitational waves. Starting in the 1960s, American

Kepler orbit (5,982 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

classical mechanics, it also does not take into account the effects of general relativity. Keplerian orbits can be parametrized into six orbital elements in

Angular momentum (13,458 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

body seems to have right-handed rotation. In an 1872 edition of the same book, Rankine stated that "The term angular momentum was introduced by Mr. Hayward

Timeline of astronomy (5,894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

German physicist Karl Schwarzschild uses Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to lay the groundwork for black hole theory. He suggests that if any

Beyond Einstein (book) (161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

theory might be the only theory that can unite quantum mechanics and general relativity in one theory. "Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of

Momentum (9,778 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and general relativity. It is an expression of one of the fundamental symmetries of space

The Elegant Universe (764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

facing modern physics: the unification of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Greene suggests that string theory is the solution

Astronomer Royal (1,817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

position of stars. This was one of the first experiments done to test general relativity. The astronomer royal is mentioned in H. G. Wells' novel The War of

Hyperspace (book) (531 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

mechanics and general relativity in one theory. He then goes on to detail theories concerning the 2-D world, named "Flatland". The end of the book discusses

André Lichnerowicz (2,652 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Riemannian geometry, symplectic geometry and general relativity. His research in general relativity began with his PhD thesis, where he described necessary

Einstein: His Life and Universe (903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

inquisitiveness and the willingness to experiment. The physicist's theory of general relativity receives particular emphasis. Broadly speaking, Einstein is viewed

Timeline of thermodynamics (3,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pressure and volume of a gas (published 1662) 1665 – Robert Hooke published his book Micrographia, which contained the statement: "Heat being nothing else but

Philosophy of science (11,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

range from questions about the nature of time raised by Einstein's general relativity, to the implications of economics for public policy. A central theme

Force (11,784 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

genuine they are also referred to as "pseudo forces".: 12-11 In general relativity, gravity becomes a fictitious force that arises in situations where

Nicolas Yunes (832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tests of general relativity. 2008 Pennsylvania State University Alumni Dissertation Award 2009 International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

Centrifugal force (5,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gravity) and gravitational forces led to the equivalence principle of general relativity. Centrifugal force is an outward force apparent in a rotating reference

Banesh Hoffmann (723 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Equations and the Problem of Motion. Einstein's original work on general relativity was based on two ideas. The first was the equation of motion: that

Helioseismology (5,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

moments of the Sun's gravitational potential, which are consistent with General Relativity. The first helioseismic calculations of the Sun's internal rotation

Kurt Gödel (5,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

involving closed timelike curves, to Einstein's field equations in general relativity. He is said to have given this elaboration to Einstein as a present

John Moffat (physicist) (2,247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

quick progress that within a year he began working on problems of general relativity and unified field theory. When Moffat was about 20 years old, he wrote

History of entropy (3,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

apartment in Paris, wrote Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. In this book, Sadi visualized an ideal engine in which any heat (i.e., caloric) converted

International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (1,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

meetings (MG) on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories which take place every

Indeterminism (4,360 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativity. The idea was originated by Nuel Belnap. The equations of general relativity admit of both indeterministic and deterministic solutions. Ludwig

Jennie Traschen (839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

S2CID 121487436 Perlick, Volker (August 1998), "Book review: Gravitation and Cosmology", General Relativity and Gravitation, 30 (8): 1293–1295, doi:10.1023/a:1026659331443

Emilio Santos Corchero (389 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativistic stars in order to see whether some modifications of general relativity (possibly of quantum origin) might prevent the collapse to singularities

The God Equation (192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gravity on Earth and the motions of the celestial bodies to Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics and the Standard Model. He dubs the final Grand

Yoichiro Nambu (1,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Information Nambu's most-cited scientific papers Yoichiro Nambu's earliest book for the scientific layman Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Yoichiro

Time in physics (6,127 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the respective national metrology laboratories. The equations of general relativity predict a non-static universe. However, Einstein accepted only a static

Multiple time dimensions (1,025 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

suggested that, in the context of a "block" spacetime as modelled by General Relativity, a second dimension of time was needed in order to measure the speed

Joël Scherk (466 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of string theory in a way that would "avoid contradictions between general relativity and quantum mechanics", but noted that Scherk suffered a breakdown

Born coordinates (6,356 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Relativity in Rotating Frames. Dordrecht: Kluwer. ISBN 1-4020-1805-3. This book contains a valuable historical survey by Øyvind Grøn and some other papers

Fine-tuned universe (4,605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

model of particle physics has 25 freely adjustable parameters and general relativity has one more, the cosmological constant, which is known to be nonzero

André Maurício Conceição de Souza (259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity, and a Professor of physics at the Federal University of Sergipe.

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (530 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

How do string theory and holography resolve the basic puzzles of general relativity, including the deep issues arising in black hole physics and the study

Scientific law (5,615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Similarly, the Newtonian gravitation law is a low-mass approximation of general relativity, and Coulomb's law is an approximation to quantum electrodynamics

Paul Lorenzen (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

about geometrical elements of general relativity, believing that Maxwell's equations are to be modified by general relativity instead. Lorenzen was also

Hagen Kleinert (1,674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

universities including Georgia Institute of Technology, where he learned general relativity as a graduate student from George Gamow, one of the fathers of the

David Malament (481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

California, Irvine, where he is now emeritus. His book Topics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory (Chicago, 2012)

Gustav Herglotz (1,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theory, celestial mechanics, theory of electrons, special relativity, general relativity, hydrodynamics, refraction theory. In 1904, Herglotz defined relations

List of Greek mathematicians (1,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1951) - Mathematician-physicist who has contributed in the field of general relativity. Constantine Dafermos (born 1941) - Usually notable for hyperbolic

History of subatomic physics (4,103 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interactions at various collision energies, no theory reconciling general relativity with the Standard Model has yet been found, although supersymmetry

Oxford Calculators (2,581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Historian David C. Lindberg and professor Michael H. Shank in their 2013 book, Cambridge History of Science, Volume 2: Medieval Science, wrote: Like Bradwardine's

John Henry Poynting (1,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the star. Howard P. Robertson later restated the prediction using general relativity. Poynting also founded and is the namesake of the popular student

The Cosmic Landscape (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

String Theory and how it can unite general relativity and quantum mechanics together. The reviewer recommended the book to "science collections in academic

Solar mass (1,536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

quettagrams (1.98855 ronnatonnes) It is also frequently useful in general relativity to express mass in units of length or time. M☉ G / c2 ≈ 1.48 km (half

Fritz Zwicky (4,484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

attempt be made to put this effect on a sound theoretical footing with general relativity. He also considered and rejected explanations involving interactions

Steven Weinberg (3,857 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his book The Quantum Theory of Fields and started to write his textbook Gravitation and Cosmology, having taken up an interest in general relativity after

Lovelock (168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

general relativity 51663 Lovelock, a minor planet Lovelock (novel), a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd Lovelock, a book by

Steven Weinberg (3,857 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his book The Quantum Theory of Fields and started to write his textbook Gravitation and Cosmology, having taken up an interest in general relativity after

Carlo Rovelli (3,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

International Xanthopoulos Award of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation, "for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics"

Minimal surface (2,718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pressure to conform to a nontrivial minimal surface. In the fields of general relativity and Lorentzian geometry, certain extensions and modifications of the

Astronomical unit (5,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

calculation of ephemerides also requires a consideration of the effects of general relativity. In particular, time intervals measured on Earth's surface (Terrestrial

Lorentz transformation (14,094 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carroll, S. M. (2004). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (illustrated ed.). Addison Wesley. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8053-8732-2.

Scientific method (20,763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

become part of accepted science. For example, Einstein's theory of general relativity makes several specific predictions about the observable structure

Imaginary time (1,139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

certain models of the universe which are solutions to the equations of general relativity. In particular, imaginary time can help to smooth out gravitational

Postulates of special relativity (3,159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

can be gleaned from Einstein's solution to the "hole problem" under general relativity, in which Einstein rejects the physicality of coordinate-system relationships

Gauge boson (712 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

this would be a gauge boson or not. The role of gauge invariance in general relativity is played by a similar[clarification needed] symmetry: diffeomorphism

Frank J. Tipler (1,712 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 2020-08-14. Tipler, Frank J (1976), Causality Violation in General Relativity (PhD thesis), University of Maryland, Bibcode:1976PhDT........61T

Pound (force) (1,182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

pounds-force (29.4 MN). Foot-pound (energy) Ton-force Kip (unit) Mass in general relativity Mass in special relativity Mass versus weight for the difference between

Relationship between mathematics and physics (2,058 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hilbert's sixth problem Empiricism Logicism Formalism Mathematics of general relativity Bourbaki Experimental mathematics History of Maxwell's equations Philosophy

Four-dimensional space (5,487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dimension of spacetime, the basis for Einstein's theories of special and general relativity. But the geometry of spacetime, being non-Euclidean, is profoundly

Roman Ulrich Sexl (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peter C. Aichelburg. Since 1972 he was professor for Cosmology and General Relativity at the University of Vienna, where, from 1969, he was director of

Three-body problem (5,432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The gravitational three-body problem has also been studied using general relativity. Physically, a relativistic treatment becomes necessary in systems

Solar eclipse (9,734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, helped to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity. By comparing the apparent distance between stars in the constellation

Body force (578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Gravity can also be considered a fictitious force in the context of General Relativity.) The body force density is defined so that the volume integral (throughout

George Chapline Jr. (1,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

proposing that they cannot be described as solutions of Einstein’s general relativity equations. Drawing upon quantum mechanical insights of himself and

Lay Nam Chang (1,044 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published research on topics in particle physics, nuclear physics, general relativity, and quantum cosmology. In the mid-1970s, he also published pioneering

Proper length (1,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

occur is flat. Hence, the above formula cannot in general be used in general relativity, in which curved spacetimes are considered. It is, however, possible

Bibliography of E. T. Whittaker (9,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

he wrote about Whittaker's contributions to electromagnetism and general relativity. Among other tributes as part of the same memorial volume of the Proceedings

Theodor Kaluza (658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kaluza noticed that when he solved Albert Einstein's equations for general relativity using five dimensions, then Maxwellian equations for electromagnetism

1918 in science (1,118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the gravitomagnetic precession of gyroscopes in the equations of general relativity. Hans Reissner and Gunnar Nordström solve the Einstein and Maxwell

Geometry Festival (2,867 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sergiu Klainerman, Null hypersurfaces and curvature estimates in general relativity Bruce Kleiner, Singular structure of mean curvature flow Frank Pacard

Acceleration (special relativity) (7,810 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

spacetime remains valid in the presence of accelerations, because general relativity (GR) is only required when there is curvature of spacetime caused

David Matravers (181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published more than 50 research papers in General Relativity and cosmology. In 2019 he published the book "How Cosmologists Explain the Universe to Friends

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (2,977 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the school mainly focused on non-linear field theory, meson theory, general relativity and geometry. Mesons which Heitler began researching when he arrived

Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment (1,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concept leading to the development of the modern theory of gravity, general relativity. Physical experiments following Galileo increased the precision of

Lambda-CDM model (11,054 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

light from distant galaxies and supernovae The model assumes that general relativity is the correct theory of gravity on cosmological scales. It emerged

Operationalization (2,244 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

operationalization can perhaps be more clearly seen in the development of General Relativity. Einstein discovered that there were two operational definitions of

The World Jones Made (676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

philosophical theory having originated with Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in Physics) emerged as the governing political orthodoxy. Relativism

1949 in science (841 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

incidentally inventing the Dyson series. The Lanczos tensor is introduced in general relativity by Cornelius Lanczos. Pauli–Villars regularization is first published

Peter Westervelt (867 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fields of Physics (with example references shown here), including General Relativity, (primarily in the area of gravitational waves), including Gravitational

Marcel Grossmann (1,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tsung-Dao Lee, Christine Jones Forman and Stephen Hawking. History of general relativity "Honorary Members of the SMS". Kollros, Louis (1937), "Prof. Dr. Marcel

List of effects (3,442 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(magnetism) (quantum physics) (de Sitter effect: see) Geodetic effect (general relativity) Debye–Falkenhagen effect Decoy effect (consumer behavior) (decision

Mechanics (2,561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

is often debatable. Two main modern developments in mechanics are general relativity of Einstein, and quantum mechanics, both developed in the 20th century

Vladimir Fock (436 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

logging in modern literature. Fock made significant contributions to general relativity theory, specifically for the many-body problems. Fock criticised on

Bohr–Einstein debates (7,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

science previous to old quantum theory and was still a feature of general relativity. In a 1926 letter to Max Born, Einstein wrote: quantum mechanics is

Gravity assist (5,021 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

additional assistance, if its spin axis is aligned the right way. General relativity predicts that a large spinning mass produces frame-dragging—close

Albert Einstein House (685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

also displacing the house now at 108 Mercer. The home is a simple pattern-book cottage and not in itself of unusual significance.: 2 Elsa Einstein purchased

Mike Morris (physicist) (263 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity". American Journal of Physics. 56 (5). American Association of Physics

Cosmos (4,484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mechanics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and special and general relativity – and on several branches of philosophy – philosophy of physics, philosophy

Ernst Schmutzer (1,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theories of Relativity and Gravitation. He investigated extensions of General relativity theory in a supplementary spatial dimension which he termed "Projective

Itzhak Bars (1,313 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

embodied in principle in the Standard Model of Particles and Forces and General Relativity, emerges from a new kind of gauge symmetric theory (in position-momentum

Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy (4,246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

though he explained his (geometrical) form of calculus in Section I of Book I of the Principia of 1687, did not explain his eventual fluxional notation

Cosmogony (1,025 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carroll, Sean M. (2003). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Pearson. "String Theory/Holography/Gravity". Center for Theoretical

Shockwave cosmology (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

universe. Smoller and Temple integrate shock waves into Einstein's general relativity. This produces a universe that "looks essentially identical to the

History of materials science (3,498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pirotechnia, the first systematic book on metallurgy, in 1556 Georg Agricola writes De Re Metallica, an influential book on metallurgy and mining, and glass

Jean-Philippe Uzan (2,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

general relativity, Uzan co-authored and presented the documentary Einstein et la Relativité Générale, une histoire singulière (Einstein and General Relativity

Jean-Philippe Uzan (2,826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

general relativity, Uzan co-authored and presented the documentary Einstein et la Relativité Générale, une histoire singulière (Einstein and General Relativity

Index of physics articles (H) (1,815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

of fluid mechanics History of gamma-ray burst research History of general relativity History of geomagnetism History of geophysics History of gravitational

History of materials science (3,498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pirotechnia, the first systematic book on metallurgy, in 1556 Georg Agricola writes De Re Metallica, an influential book on metallurgy and mining, and glass

Classical Mechanics (Goldstein) (1,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

revised and could prove to be more useful to students who want to study general relativity than its equivalent in previous editions. Chapter 11 provides a clear

Einstein field equations (5,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0521410724. Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: General Relativity Wikiversity has learning resources about General Relativity "Einstein equations", Encyclopedia

Nikhil Ranjan Sen (1,162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was an Indian-Bengali scientist who was a pioneer in the field of general relativity and called the father of applied mathematics in India. He received

Models of scientific inquiry (3,259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the orbit of Mercury. Eventually, Einstein developed his theory of general relativity and it explained the orbit of Mercury and all other known observations

Ruth Durrer (1,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

background". General Relativity and Gravitation. 41 (7): 1671–1673. doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0791-0. S2CID 117069473. Coles, Peter (2009). "BOOK REVIEW: The

History of nanotechnology (5,070 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for the goals of nanotechnology beginning with the 1986 publication of the book Engines of Creation. The field was subject to growing public awareness and

Reality (8,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Local realism is a significant feature of classical mechanics, of general relativity, and of electrodynamics; but quantum mechanics has shown that quantum

The Infinite Monkey Cage (1,219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

regular programmes, a special entitled "An Infinite Monkey's Guide to General Relativity" was broadcast in two half-hour episodes on 8 and 15 December 2015

Generalized function (2,264 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

[2001]. Geometric theory of generalized functions with applications to general relativity. Springer. ISBN 978-94-015-9845-3. Estrada, R.; Kanwal, R. (2012)

Prediction (4,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

preferred or absolute frame of reference. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity could not easily be tested as it did not produce any effects observable

Event (relativity) (474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bridgman found the event concept insufficient for operational physics in his book The Logic of Modern Physics. Relativity of simultaneity A.P. French (1968)

Timeline of cosmological theories (9,835 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

detected by two LIGO detectors. The waveform matched the prediction of General relativity for a gravitational wave emanating from the inward spiral and merger

Hierarchy problem (3,504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

corrections, but it is complicated by the necessary involvement of general relativity in the problem. Proposed solutions to the cosmological constant problem

Pure mathematics (1,800 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematicians, but at the time that he was writing his Apology, he considered general relativity and quantum mechanics to be "useless", which allowed him to hold the

List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics (893 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

textbooks in electromagnetism List of books on general relativity Teaching quantum mechanics A Physics Book List. John Baez. Department of Mathematics, University

Escape velocity (3,642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bertschinger, Edmund (2010). Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity (2nd revised ed.). Addison-Wesley. pp. 2–22. ISBN 978-0-321-51286-4

1919 in science (1,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ministry of Health in England and Wales. May 29 – Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light"

Relativistic Doppler effect (6,041 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

source and receiver in the pseudogravitational field of the rotor (general relativity) both lead to the conclusion that there should be no Doppler shift

Pat Murphy (writer) (711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Science. F&SF. 98 (3): 119–126. Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy (May 2000). "General relativity at home". Science. F&SF. 98 (5): 108–116. — & — (August 2000). "Playing

Dust (disambiguation) (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

in intergalactic clouds Dust solution, a type of exact solution in general relativity Mineral dust, atmospheric aerosols of mineral origin Neural dust,

The Time of Our Singing (465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Calloway "A Child of Our Time" by the British composer Michael Tippett General Relativity - Page 9 Second Law of Thermodynamics - Page 88 The Daughters of the

Alwyn Van der Merwe (3,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

edition of an earlier book. H. J. Treder, H. von Borzeskowski, and A.J. van der Merwe, Fundamental Principles General Relativity. Theories, Plenun, New

MicroFUN (1,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

that result. Gravitational lensing is an effect of Albert Einstein's general relativity, which says that all matter bends light that passes by it. Strong

David Hilbert (6,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

By early summer 1915, Hilbert's interest in physics had focused on general relativity, and he invited Einstein to Göttingen to deliver a week of lectures

Alternatives to general relativity (13,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to general relativity are physical theories that attempt to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in competition with Einstein's theory of general relativity

Quantum field theory (14,900 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

foundation of general relativity, the equivalence principle, can also be understood as a form of gauge symmetry, making general relativity a gauge theory

Eternalism (philosophy of time) (2,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

that, "the consensus among philosophers seems to be that special and general relativity are incompatible with presentism." Christian Wüthrich argues that

Why Beauty Is Truth (765 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

from the Patent Office Albert Einstein developed in his theory of general relativity a symmetry of space and time. Chapter 12: A Quantum Quintet Max Planck

Suraj N. Gupta (369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

From it came some of the first attempts, to derive the equations of general relativity from quantum field theory for a massless spin-2 particle (graviton)

Lowell S. Brown (1,521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

elementary particle physics, astrophysics, general relativity, plasma physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. His book "Quantum Field Theory" (1994) has

An Experiment with Time (2,549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

spacetime landscape described by the recently published theory of general relativity, an observer travels along a timeline running in the direction of

Hans Stephani (162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hans Stephani (2004). Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. "Hans Stephani". The Mathematics Genealogy

Xi (letter) (827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

spin-orbit matrix operator in atomic physics. The Killing vector in general relativity. Average logarithmic energy decrement per collision (neutron calculations

Tullio Levi-Civita (1,947 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tensor calculus, a critical tool in the development of the theory of general relativity. In 1917 he introduced the notion of parallel transport in Riemannian

Twistor (book) (270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

solutions of Twistor equations. In 1967 Roger Penrose developed a general relativity approach called Twistor theory to apply to the study of quantum gravity

Tohru Eguchi (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

an exact Euclidean instanton solution of the vacuum equations of general relativity, the Eguchi–Hanson space metric. This solution has applications, for

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

International Commission for Optics AC2. International Commission on General Relativity and Gravitation AC3. International Commission for Acoustics AC4. International

One-way speed of light (5,711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

violations not only of special relativity, but of the Standard Model and general relativity as well. Regarding the isotropy of the speed of light, both two-way

Foliation (8,140 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

foliation and q = n − p is called its codimension. In some papers on general relativity by mathematical physicists, the term foliation (or slicing) is used

Particle physics (4,109 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

attempt to construct a unified description of quantum mechanics and general relativity by building a theory based on small strings, and branes rather than

Wigner rotation (6,194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Borel in 1913, rediscovered and proved by Ludwik Silberstein in his 1914 book 'Relativity', rediscovered by Llewellyn Thomas in 1926, and rederived by

Relativity of simultaneity (2,668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published Concepts of Simultaneity: from antiquity to Einstein and beyond. The book culminates in chapter 6, "The transition to the relativistic conception of

Leonard Susskind (2,690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. The fourth book in the series, General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum was published in January 2023.

Hamiltonian constraint of LQG (7,771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the ADM formulation of general relativity one splits spacetime into spatial slices and time, the basic variables are taken to be the induced metric

Stuart L. Shapiro (698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

expert in the numerical simulation of astrophysical phenomena in general relativity and has written two standard works on the subject. In 1979 he was

Flatness problem (4,222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for inflationary theory. According to Einstein's field equations of general relativity, the structure of spacetime is affected by the presence of matter

Curvilinear coordinates (8,289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

used in tensor analysis on four-dimensional curvilinear manifolds in general relativity, in the mechanics of curved shells, in examining the invariance properties

Metre (11,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Furthermore, special relativity changed conceptions of time and mass, while general relativity changed that of space. According to Newton, space was Euclidean, infinite

Enrico Fermi (11,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

general relativity. Fermi initially chose mathematics as his major, but soon switched to physics. He remained largely self-taught, studying general relativity

Matvei Bronstein (613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fact, the book got us married." Bronstein, Matvei (2011). "Republication of: Quantum theory of weak gravitational fields". General Relativity and Gravitation

Curvilinear coordinates (8,289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

used in tensor analysis on four-dimensional curvilinear manifolds in general relativity, in the mechanics of curved shells, in examining the invariance properties

Penrose process (864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press. ISBN 0-19-850370-9. Carroll, Sean (2003). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-8053-8732-3.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2,401 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

expect from one of his books. General relativity. The Big Bang. Inflation. Galaxy formation. Gravitational waves ... This book will stand as Hawking's manifesto

Bernard Haisch (1,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

employed five full-time physicists doing research on string theory, general relativity and stochastic electrodynamics. Haisch served as the institute's director

Flatness problem (4,222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for inflationary theory. According to Einstein's field equations of general relativity, the structure of spacetime is affected by the presence of matter

Digit (magazine) (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

dmystify is a pocketbook introduction to complex science topics such as General relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String theory, etc. There are two special issues

4 (9,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Special relativity and general relativity treat nature as four-dimensional: 3D regular space and one-dimensional

Paul Marmet (1,133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mc2 implying mass-energy conservation. However, he later developed general relativity which is not compatible with that principle. Indeed, according to

Physics World (3,473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cox The Perfect Theory: a Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity - Pedro G Ferreira Stuff Matters: the Strange Stories of the Marvellous

Connection (vector bundle) (8,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

coordinates. However, other notations are also regularly used: in general relativity, vector bundle computations are usually written using indexed tensors;

Beyond Star Trek (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

apply the principle of general relativity to star travel, explore computer consciousness, and forecast the end of the world. "The book concludes by affirming

History of optics (5,682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

geometrical optics. He wrote many books on optics, most significantly the Book of Optics (Kitab al Manazir in Arabic), translated into Latin as the De aspectibus

Sandip Chakrabarti (839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Liang on a Theorem on "Time like Curves of limited acceleration in General Relativity", and under S. Chandrasekhar's supervision solved the Dirac equation

1916 in literature (2,522 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" (The Groundwork of General Relativity), Annalen der Physik 49 Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound – Noh, or

Randall Munroe (2,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published "The Space Doctor's Big Idea", an article by Munroe explaining general relativity using only the 1,000 most common English words. Munroe has a blog

Inflationary epoch (1,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

inflationary vacuum had a much higher energy density. According to general relativity, any vacuum state with non-zero energy density generates a repulsive

Interstellar travel (10,199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Proposed mechanisms for faster-than-light travel within the theory of general relativity require the existence of exotic matter and, it is not known if it

Cosmological natural selection (913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Black hole cosmology Biocosm Anthropic principle Quantum gravity General relativity Quantum mechanics Lee Smolin Fine-tuned universe "Smolin vs. Susskind:

1976 in science (1,200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched. July 20 – Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully

1910s (3,226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Boston Elevated Railway. In 1916, Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Max von Laue discovers the diffraction of x-rays by crystals. In

Richard Feynman (14,483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Einstein said that one might try to apply this method to gravity in general relativity, which Sir Fred Hoyle and Jayant Narlikar did much later as the Hoyle–Narlikar

The 4 Percent Universe (1,179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1930s. This model, when used in conjunction with Albert Einstein's general relativity helped in the creation of the Big Bang model and the later discovery

20th century in science (9,743 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of post-Newtonian theories in physics, such as special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics led to the development of nuclear weapons.

Big Bang (Singh book) (486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

hypothesis and by experiment. These include Albert Einstein, for his General Relativity, Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman for first discovering that this

History of thermodynamics (3,809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

movement can be seen." During the same years, Daniel Bernoulli published his book Hydrodynamics (1738), in which he derived an equation for the pressure of

Mathematics (16,258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mercury could only be explained after the emergence of Einstein's general relativity, which replaced Newton's law of gravitation as a better mathematical

Ecliptic (2,660 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"Secular Terms of Classical Planetary Theories Using the Results of General Relativity". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 157 (1): 59. Bibcode:1986A&A...157.

History of spectroscopy (5,598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

30–31.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Pliny the Elder; Bostock, John, tr.; Riley, H.T., tr. (1898). "Book 37, Ch. 52. Iris;

Future (3,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eddington, A. S. (1921). Space, time and gravitation; an outline of the general relativity theory. Cambridge: University Press. p. 107. "You Can't Travel Back

Proper acceleration (4,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physical space in general relativity, Am. J. Phys. 72:214–219 Hartle, James B. (2003). Gravity: an Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity. San Francisco:

Shadows of the Mind (1,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Reduction predicts the relationship between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Penrose proposes that a quantum state remains in superposition until

Edward Tryon (1,796 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mentor to him. His doctoral thesis focused on the relationship between general relativity and quantum field theory and was titled: "Classical and Quantum Field-Theoretic

Ratan Lal Brahmachary (1,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"Solution of the Combined Gravitational and Mesic Field Equations in General Relativity". Which was published in 1960 in Progress of Theoretical Physics.

History of geophysics (3,138 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

geophysics (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 9780521339384.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Wood, Robert Muir (1985)

Lisa Randall (1,518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, and general relativity. After her graduate work at Harvard, Randall held professorships at

Mathematical beauty (3,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematical physicists tend to experience in Einstein's theory of general relativity has been attributed (by Paul Dirac, among others) to its "great mathematical

John Stachel (451 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

PhD at Stevens Institute of Technology in Physics about a topic in General relativity in 1958. After holding different teaching positions at Lehigh University

Deductive-nomological model (12,177 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

theory, refuting Newtonian gravitation. By predictive success in 1919, general relativity apparently overthrew Newton's theory, a revolution in science resisted

Vacuum energy (1,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vacuum energy also has important consequences for physical cosmology. General relativity predicts that energy is equivalent to mass, and therefore, if the

Henri Poincaré (9,817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Four-Dimensional Movement in Gravitation, 1905–1910". The Genesis of General Relativity. Vol. 3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 1118–1178. doi:10

Gary Zukav (2,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Wisconsin, wrote in Physics Today in August 1979, "Dealing with general relativity [Zukav] manages to convey the profound mental shift required to reduce

Olbers's paradox (2,739 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

observable universe, or at least for a finite number of stars. In general relativity theory, it is still possible for the paradox to hold in a finite universe:

Relativistic electromagnetism (1,236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

engineers broke out in the 1960s after Richard Feynman’s textbook. Rosser’s book Classical Electromagnetism via Relativity was popular, as was Anthony French’s

Graduate Texts in Mathematics (4,909 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dimensions 2 and 3, Edwin E. Moise (1977, ISBN 978-0-387-90220-3) General Relativity for Mathematicians, R. K. Sachs, H. Wu (1983, ISBN 978-0-387-90218-0)

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (1,697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain". The Royal Society established the Science Books Prize

Causal perturbation theory (467 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

two : 100 years after general relativity (Revised ed.). Mineola, New York. ISBN 978-0-486-80524-5. OCLC 929591612.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location

Yang–Mills theory (4,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

formulated a six-dimensional theory of Einstein's field equations of general relativity, extending the five-dimensional theory of Kaluza, Klein, Fock, and