Sentences with phrase «of general relativity»

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

It is well known that the approximate method of integration of the gravitational equations of the general relativity theory leads to the existence of gravitational waves [2].

Studies of atomic quantum states in free - fall conditions may provide ways to test predictions of general relativity.

One of the remaining tests of general relativity is to measure gravitational waves directly.

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

A new analysis calculates a secondary effect of general relativity on that orbit.

The deepest implication of general relativity is not that the universe may expand or that there are black holes.

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

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

The success of general relativity is embedded in our modern world.

The concept of general relativity was necessary in order to correct the time that the GPS satellites were reading.

This is the effect we know as gravity and it is the core of general relativity.

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

By the end of the 20th century, advances in technology allowed most of general relativity's predictions to be tested.

He could believe in gravity waves and other unlikely predictions of general relativity because math supported them.

We will have to have in our hands the full quantum theory of gravity [a combination of general relativity and quantum mechanics, yet to be understood] to find out the answer.

The leading idea of general relativity — the fusion of space and time — is not hard to grasp.

There is simply no better introduction to the strange wonders of general relativity and quantum mechanics, the fields of knowledge essential for any real understanding of space and time.

He learned that from his pursuit of general relativity.

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

A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity.

Much later, he wrote a beautiful book describing the different solutions of the equations of general relativity that describe black holes.

One of the first predictions of general relativity to be tested involved the bending of light.

The implication of general relativity is that there is no background.

Over the past decade or so our theoretical understanding of general relativity has improved a great deal, allowing us to calculate the precise pattern of gravitational waves it predicts for such a merger.

Einstein's famous theory of general relativity predicts the existence of gravitational waves, but it's taken humanity over a century to develop the technological know - how to build a detector sensitive enough to perceive them.

Einstein was also ambivalent about other consequences of general relativity.

The discovery provides the first confirmation of general relativity in very strong gravitational fields (as opposed to the weak fields of Earth and other planets).

(That actually proved a lucky break for Einstein, since his early version of general relativity predicted the wrong amount of deflection.)

Also, by showing that the gravitational field isn't smooth but quantised, like space itself, it would point toward a theory of quantum gravity, the long - sought reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics.

This detection has, in a single stroke and for the first time, validated Einstein's theory of general relativity for very strong fields, established the nature of gravitational waves, demonstrated the existence of black holes with masses 30 times that of our sun, and opened a new window on the universe.

«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.

Now, physicist Clifford Will has calculated another effect of general relativity on Mercury's orbit, he reports in a paper accepted in Physical Review Letters.

This «anti-gravity» effect is represented in Einstein's equations of general relativity by a term called the cosmological constant.

A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein's theory of General Relativity using brief blasts of rare radio signals from space called Fast Radio Bursts is ten times, to one - hundred times better than previous testing methods that used gamma - ray bursts, according to a paper just published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

But a smaller quirk of general relativity hadn't been explicitly calculated until now.

He followed the mathematics of general relativity toward what he hoped would be a theory subsuming the laws of gravity and subatomic particles.

He sought an extension of general relativity that would incorporate electromagnetism, thereby wedding the large - scale world, where gravity dominates, with the small - scale world of quantum physics.

«And our results confirmed the validity of General Relativity at the 0.05 % level, which is by far the best precision yet achieved for the strong - field regime.»

Maybe we are seeing the first evidence of modifications of General Relativity on large scales - if we are, how can we test for it?

Gravity, as Einstein's theory of general relativity tells us, warps space - time.

Skeptical at first, scientists slowly began to accept the idea in the ensuing decades, as more evidence supporting Einstein's theory of general relativity came to light.

«We're really looking at probing the predictions of general relativity even more deeply,» says Will.