Sentences with phrase «general theory of relativity turns»

Einstein's general theory of relativity turns 100 this year, and just wait until you see our birthday present.

Einstein's general theory of relativity turns 100 this year!

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Newton's law of gravity was later explained, in turn, by Einstein, who showed that it followed from a more profound theory of gravity called general relativity.

The speed and pace of those measurements promise to add an increment of precision to GPS navigation, and ROMY may even be able to detect a subtle effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity: the drag of the rotating planet on nearby spacetime, like a spoon turned in a pot of honey.

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

In some alternate theories of gravity that could take over if general relativity turns out to be wrong, the neutron star could have gravitational effects going on inside it that the relatively willowy white dwarf would not.

In 1948 Gödel turned his attention to Einstein's supreme creation, the general theory of relativity, and succeeded in coaxing a new and flamboyant universe from the alembic of its symbols.

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.