Sentences with phrase «general relativity»

The researchers also accounted for an odd feature of general relativity in which clocks at different heights keep different times.

But thanks to a key prediction in general relativity, we have directly measured the mass of a white dwarf for the first time.

But the new map, which spans very large scales yet is consistent with general relativity, lets the air out of those theories.

Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

As general relativity predicts, light from the background star bent around the white dwarf, distorted by its gravitational field.

Black holes give scientists an opportunity to test general relativity in very extreme gravitational fields.

However, a prediction has uncertainties associated with it and so does measurement and this is as true for general relativity as it is for climate.

Not until the late 1960s did black holes emerge as general relativity's most prominent advertisement, stimulating both science and the popular imagination.

It starts from general relativity and attempts to incorporate quantum field theory within a relational approach.

It will also verify if general relativity can accurately predict the magnitude of the effect.

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

If you've ever wanted to learn about general relativity, quantum mechanics, gravity, black holes and elementary particles, but were too intimidated, then this is the perfect introduction.

The effort to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics always hits one snag: gravity.

Event horizons seem to be the best theoretical test bed for combining general relativity and quantum mechanics into a unified theory of quantum gravity.

It was written in an easy - to - understand style, so readers without prior knowledge of scientific theories could understand complex ideas including general relativity and quantum mechanics.

He also has an evident intellectual mastery of his field — that remote nexus between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Part of my job was applying general relativity to correct the rates of the clocks that were to be launched into orbit.

To put general relativity to its greatest test, we need to see whether it holds up where gravity is extremely strong.

To an observer trapped within a black hole, the laws of general relativity still obtain.

He would lock himself in his room and study general relativity.

We expect that this will require linking general relativity and the weird rules of quantum physics as they apply to the vacuum of empty space.

For example, while general relativity predicts that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, some alternative theories of gravity predict that gravitational waves of different energies travel at different speeds.

The paradox has it that if black holes are as we think, they must be surrounded by rings of fire, though that would violate general relativity.

Thus, in general relativity there is no fixed framework, no stage on which the world plays itself out.

«If you see any of the other four it kills general relativity,» he says.

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

There sure weren't any practical applications of special or general relativity when he came up with them.

The problem is that the rules of general relativity mandate physical continuity everywhere in the universe, even around a black hole.

For one, general relativity alone can not explain the observed motions of galaxies or the way the universe seems to expand.

The longevity of general relativity owes as much to its complexity as it does to the wide variety of strange new phenomena it predicted.

According to general relativity calculations, as one passes the event horizon (the point of no return) of a black hole, space and time switch roles.

In particular, the discovery opened up a profound paradox that aims at the heart of why general relativity and quantum mechanics are so hard to reconcile.

«This was the most powerful test ever conducted to confirm general relativity,» he says.

This contradicts the picture general relativity paints of a black hole from which nothing can escape.

This variation of general relativity incorporates an important quantum property known as spin.

It is thanks to the effects of gravity as described by general relativity.

If they do see some waves, they will be able to test general relativity in several ways.

The accuracy achieved was 20 parts per million, 50 times better than even the Viking results, and — wouldn't you know it — right in line with general relativity.

In a sense, general relativity predicts its own demise.

One small step for metal cubes, one giant leap for general relativity.

In the meantime, the clock could help find holes in general relativity.

This new, more robust version was called the theory of general relativity.

How can we reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics?

When we apply general relativity to the universe as a whole, one solution naturally describes an expanding cosmos that originated in a fiery big bang.

The universe was not static; it was expanding, just as general relativity had suggested.

After studying physics at the Universities of Ulm and Konstanz and physical oceanography at the University of Wales (Bangor) Stefan Rahmstorf completed a thesis on general relativity theory.

Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time using general relativity yields an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past.

General relativity says wormholes could exist.

The cosmologist John Wheeler came up with probably the best way of visualising how general relativity works: «space - time tells matter how to move; matter tells space - time how to curve», he wrote.