Sentences with phrase «general relativity still»

And although Einstein eventually accepted that these oscillations in space - time could exist, they remain the only major prediction of general relativity still to be verified.

Even though this year marks its 100th anniversary, Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity still holds its share of mysteries.

Not exact matches

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I, however, know every bit of this - and how string theory harmonizes general relativity with quantum mechanics - but am still a Christian We'll see.

Nobody has managed to reconcile quantum mechanics with the rules of Einstein's general relativity, for instance; at a deeper level, we still do not even know why the laws of physics are the particular way they are.

After a century of testing general relativity, physicists still strive to achieve what the genius who formulated the theory could not.

A century ago Albert Einstein changed the way we view the world with his theory of general relativity — and his theories still captivate physicists today.

He rigged the equations of general relativity to explain why the cosmos was standing still when it wasn't.

Conscious of previous confirmations of general relativity's effects, NASA convened an external panel in 1995 to assess whether Gravity Probe B was still worthwhile.

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.

«We still don't understand exactly how the corona is produced or why it changes its shape, but we see it lighting up material around the black hole, enabling us to study the regions so close in that effects described by Einstein's theory of general relativity become prominent,» said NuSTAR Principal Investigator Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.

He went on to use this «equivalence principle» as the fundament of his general theory of relativity, still our best stab at explaining the mysterious force of gravity.

17 No wonder nobody noticed: At the time of Einstein's death in 1955, scientists still had almost no evidence of general relativity in action.

An inspirational leap could unify quantum gravity and general relativity — but with physicists still struggling, baby steps forward might be more likely

Surprisingly, physicists still can't agree on the value of the «big G» constant that features both in Isaac Newton's law of gravitation — which dates back to the year 1687 — and in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Some of the strange mathematical properties of black holes, coming from Karl Schwarzschild's first solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity in 1915, still puzzle the scientists.

«We still don't understand exactly how the corona is produced or why it changes its shape, but we see it lighting up material around the black hole, enabling us to study the regions so close in that effects described by Einstein's theory of general relativity become prominent,» said co-author and NuSTAR principal investigator Fiona Harrison, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

These waves in turn are a central component Einstein's theory of general relativity from 1915, that is still the basis for today's standard model of cosmology.

With current observations suggesting that dark energy comprises more than 70 percent of the matter - energy density of the present - day universe, astronomers say that measuring the apparent shapes and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe will constrain the nature of dark energy and allow them to examine whether the general theory of relativity is still a valid description of gravitation on scales of billions of light years.

To my (uncertain) knowledge, quantum theory and general relativity theory are still not as yet unified (the Theory of Everything is delayed).

Years ago I bought the 1300 page book «GRAVITY» on Einstein's general relativity and I still am not very versed even though I have written Horizon type solar system simulators complete with relativity corrections.

However, the special / general distinction is still used in terms like «special / general counsel» and «special / general relativity.»