Sentences with phrase «without general relativity»

Without general relativity, for instance, GPS devices would be worthless.

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It is hypocritical at best to disclaim evolution, and then get into your car, turn on your gps (which would be impossible if not for special and general relativity), and pick your favorite song on your ipod (impossible without quantum mechanics).

The answer to that turns out to be «definitely maybe»: If general relativity can be extended without modification into arbitrarily high energy densities, then yes — we can show that time doesn't extend indefinitely far backwards.

Your error demands a closed system or set limited by our universe which is not possible without discarding general relativity.

Without the two-fold reality which the relativity principle attaches to all completed occasions (and, more generally, to every entity of every type), the Category of the Ultimate, or principle of creativity — the most general principle presupposed by all the other categories of Whitehead's metaphysics (PR 31)-- would be an outright contradiction.

First, Whitehead's construction of the Special Theory of Relativity from a rather distinctive use of the word «event,» and secondly by his more general idea of events which related to each other without having a substratum which passed from one to the other.

By 1982 Barbour and Bertotti had come up with a new theory of gravity (pdf) that described the world just as accurately as Einstein's general relativity but without invoking time as a fundamental dimension.

But despite these successes, Einstein's theory is not without rivals, so scientists are eager to test general relativity as thoroughly as possible.

Without taking special and general relativity into account, a GPS - determined location veers off - course by as much as 6.2 miles a day.

She feeds the interested nonspecialist reader like myself lucid (and slightly heterodox) pocket accounts of Galileo's trial, of the relations between science and magic, of quantum physics and general relativity theory and the gulf between them, of superstring theory and the current belief in ten dimensions — simplifying the complexities of 2500 years of history gracefully and without strain.

True, most solar system and astronomical phenomena are still calculated with Newton's hoary theory of gravitation, but we would be nowhere without our GPS gadgets, which work only once corrected for the effects of general relativity.

I'm sending you a copy of the exposition of the general theory of relativity without the presumption of your really reading it.