Sentences with phrase «combining general relativity»
By combining General Relativity with quantum physics unknown to Einstein, a Penn State physicist shows the mathematical viability of a collapsing universe before the Big Bang.
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Event horizons seem to be the best theoretical test bed for combining general relativity and quantum mechanics into a unified theory of quantum gravity.
Yet just by studying such a possibility, physicists are hoping to make a breakthrough in their efforts to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics into a theory of quantum gravity — one of the most intractable problems in physics today.
When we combine general relativity with quantum theory, we find moderately strong evidence that wormholes can not exist after all — but we just don't know for sure yet.
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During the past century, electromagnetic theory united electrostatics, magnetostatics, and network theory with optics in one stroke; special relativity combined classical mechanics with electromagnetic theory; general relativity combined the theory of gravitation with physical geometry and special relativity; and quantum mechanics united much of physics with, at least in principle, all of chemistry.
The problem is that when we try to calculate radiation effects as we enter a time machine, we have to come up with a theory that combines Einstein's general relativity with the quantum theory of radiation.
Hawking radiation, the result of attempts to combine quantum theory with general relativity, comprises these escaping particles, but physicists have yet to detect it being emitted from an astrophysical black hole.
The obvious next step would be to craft a new theory that combines the successes of quantum field theory and general relativity but avoids the conflicts between them.
Combined in this equation, these letters express a possible path to reconciling Einstein's general relativity with quantum mechanics.
For years Hawking has argued that a better theory — one that physicists have been seeking ever since Einstein's heyday — would one day inevitably combine quantum mechanics with general relativity.
Hawking transformed our understanding of black holes by combining the two pillars of 20th century physics, general relativity and quantum mechanics.
A big challenge in physics is how to combine Einstein's general relativity, which describes gravity, with quantum mechanics to create a theory of quantum gravity.