Sentences with phrase «because general relativity»

Because general relativity didn't explain quantum theory, it had to be provisional as well.

Gravitation expert Bernard Schutz of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, says he thinks that the mission was worthwhile because general relativity should be checked in a variety of ways.

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[17] Hawking, 46, notes that at the Big Bang moment «the density of the universe and the curvature of space - time would have been infinite,» yet «because mathematics can not really handle infinite numbers,... the general theory of relativity... itself breaks down.»

Read http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/455880/Stephen-Hawking-says-there-is-no-such-thing-as-black-holes-Einstein-spinning-in-his-grave Absence of Black Holes means Stephen Hawking has finally accepted that there are serious problems with both Newton's perspective of Gravity & Einstein's General Theory of Relativity because both require Black Holes at the center of the galaxies.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity superceded Newton's Theory of Gravity because of observations of the orbits of Mercury.

I also find it unacceptable scientifically because if one is approaching it from our current understanding of Relativity, the thing that corresponds to our awareness of the universe over an interval of time is not a simultaneity slab, because in General Relativity there is no such thing.

Physics, in particular, is noted for its ability to use inductive reasoning to posit universal laws such as Einstein's General Relativity, making the claim that experiments and observations on or from earth allow us to generalise a theory into universal law, i.e. a law of physics that we believe must hold everywhere in the universe because this is a law written into the fabric of the universe.

Abell 2744 is useful as an astronomical tool because the universe obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

That's because, in general relativity, the expansion of each local region of space depends on how much matter is within.

But general relativity maintains that those black holes merged because their mass indented the fabric of space and time (SN: 10/17/15, p. 16).

Physicists scrutinize the equivalence principle because any violation could point to new forces of nature that might resolve a long - standing impasse between general relativity and quantum theory.

The discovery immediately becomes a likely candidate for a Nobel Prize, and not just because it ties a neat bow around decades of evidence supporting a major prediction of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity.

This mystery is tantalizing because it seems to involve a connection between quantum mechanics and gravity and could provide a clue to uniting general relativity with quantum mechanics.

Einstein's theories also opened a rift in physics because the rules of general relativity (which describe gravity and the large - scale structure of the cosmos) seem incompatible with those of quantum physics (which govern the realm of the tiny).

One program, «Inside Einstein's Mind,» succeeded not only because it dealt in a convincing way with the complexities of theoretical physics, but also because it revealed a very human drama as Einstein raced to complete his general theory of relativity in 1915, even as the world seemed to be falling apart during World War I as was his marriage.

By the mid-1980s the new superstring theory had emerged as the hottest theoretical breakthrough since quantum mechanics, mainly because it seemed to show a way that quantum mechanics itself could be merged with Einstein's general relativity.

Einstein would later describe this thought experiment of the falling workman as «the happiest thought of my life,» because it provided the necessary jump - start for his general theory of relativity.

He could believe in gravity waves and other unlikely predictions of general relativity because math supported them.

This difference is dubbed the «gravitational red shift» (GRS) and is one of the trickiest predictions of general relativity to measure because the effect is so small.

Hawking's work was a tremendous conceptual advance because it linked three previously disparate areas of physics: general relativity, quantum theory and thermodynamics.

My friends in physics look at space - time purely from the perspective of real physics, yet the general theory of relativity describes space - time in terms of geometry, because that's how Einstein looked at the problem.

General relativity: Einstein, 1915 General relativity was much more revolutionary than special relativity, because it ditched Newton's law of gravity in favor of curved spacetime.

They measured it just because it was there, with no inkling that it would soon emerge as the sole experimental anchor of a revolutionary new conception of space and time — the general theory of relativity.

This testing is especially so in regions close to a black hole, according to Chen, because the current evidence for Einstein's general relativity — light bending by the sun, for example — mainly comes from regions where the gravitational field is very weak, or regions far away from a black hole.

Einstein was particularly pleased to be there because of the role Brazilian scientists had played in verifying his theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity.

The second - largest contribution comes from the warping of space - time around the Sun because of the star's own gravity, which is covered by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

General relativity says it's impossible to send rockets through space at the speed of light, because this would require infinite energy.

«In principle, these stars could test general relativity, because they get into a very strong gravitational field at the central black hole,» Ghez says.

That is because for decades cosmologists have had trouble reconciling the classic notion of viscosity based on the laws of thermodynamics with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

General relativity plays an essential role because its infinite phase space will prevent cosmic history being simply a repetitive sequence of returns to the same state.

Because it should be possible to survive the transition from our world to the black hole world, physicists and mathematicians have long wondered what that world would look like, and have turned to Einstein's equations of general relativity to predict the world inside a black hole.

A failure in the predictions of General Relativity «would have been excellent news,» he affirms, «because finding deviations is a hint that there is more to be learned, and that would be very exciting.»

A 100 - year - old «cosmological constant» theory introduced by Albert Einstein in relation to his work on general relativity and some other theories derived from this model remain as viable contenders because they propose that dark energy is a constant in both space and time: Gravitational waves and light waves are affected in the same way by dark energy, and thus travel at the same rate through space.

The brightening occurs because a second star (the «lens») physically crosses between your telescope and the source and magnifies the source light through general relativity.