Sentences with phrase «using general relativity»

Thorne has carried out a wide range of theoretical research in gravitation and astrophysics, including having predicted the existence of a type of red supergiant star with a neutron star core, and using general relativity to describe how black holes move and precess.

Wald did this using general relativity.

Using general relativity, Einstein made a series of predictions.

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.

This article appears in the October 17, 2015, Science News with the headline, «Magnifying the cosmos: Using general relativity to see deep into space.»

Throw a ball while standing on the surface of the Earth, and it doesn't matter whether you use general relativity or Newtonian mechanics to calculate where the ball will land — you'll get the same answer.

In 1939 the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer used general relativity to show in detail how black holes could form from collapsing stars.

Their paths shift slightly from one orbit to the next — a phenomenon known as precession — but when astronomers use general relativity to predict the amount of this shift, their answers are off by a factor of four.

Einstein uses general relativity to predict the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in space - time produced when massive bodies interact

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He explained that using a solution of Einstein's equations of General Relativity corresponding to an expanding universe.

No, you don't need as many mathematics models to describe evolution as you need, say, models to describe gravitation under general relativity, but they're being used to explain different phenomenon.

«a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

First, Whitehead's construction of the Special Theory of Relativity from a rather distinctive use of the word «event,» and secondly by his more general idea of events which related to each other without having a substratum which passed from one to the other.

Physics, in particular, is noted for its ability to use inductive reasoning to posit universal laws such as Einstein's General Relativity, making the claim that experiments and observations on or from earth allow us to generalise a theory into universal law, i.e. a law of physics that we believe must hold everywhere in the universe because this is a law written into the fabric of the universe.

Using ultraprecise atomic clocks, scientists proved that for every one foot higher you move above the Earth's surface, time speeds up by a factor of 0.00000000000000004 due to the slight decrease in the force of gravity — just as general relativity would predict.

The first lumpy universe simulations to use full general relativity were unveiled in the June 2016 Physical Review Letters.

No one has yet succeeded in using the Wheeler - DeWitt equation to integrate quantum theory with general relativity.

To test theories such as general relativity, the strength of gravity is measured precisely using ensembles of supercold atoms falling in a vacuum chamber.

If scientists perform Gould's test, it will not be the first time the Earth has been used to test general relativity.

Scientists planned to use it to explore galaxy formation, test Einstein's general theory of relativity, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

As with previous detections of gravitational waves, the scientists used their measurements to test general relativity.

The first confirmation that the theory of general relativity was correct came when Einstein proved it could be used it to accurately predict Mercury's orbit.

Ye is most excited about the future possibility of using the atoms in the clock as a gravity sensor, to see how quantum mechanics, which operates on very small spatial scales, interacts with general relativity, the theory of gravity, a macroscopic force.

Over the centuries, astronomers have used eclipses to make fundamental advances, such as discovering helium and confirming Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (J. M. Pasachoff Nature Astron.

It has been used to detect planets around distant stars within the Milky Way galaxy, and was among the first methods used to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

A newly discovered magnetized neutron star could be used to test Einstein's general theory of relativity

General relativity also is the bedrock of gravitational lensing, which uses the gravity of stars and galaxies as a giant magnifying glass to zoom in on farther cosmic objects.

With a laugh, he recalls what his dissertation committee thought when he submitted a proposal to use the mathematics of general relativity to measure social change: «We don't know what this is.

It also uses random number generator equations for timing signals, trigonometric equations to compute location, and special and general relativity for precise tracking of the satellites» motion under the Earth's gravity.

In fact, says astrophysicist Rachel Mandelbaum of Princeton University, «projects like the CFHT Lensing Survey can be used to test theories of dark matter and general relativity.»

Alongside Diego Rubiera, from the University of Lisbon, and Antonio Sánchez, PhD student also at the UV, Olmo's research sees him analysing black holes using theories besides general relativity (GR).

After tinkering with Einstein's general relativity equations to put in a new correction factor, he used the data from the experiment to calculate gravity's speed: 1.06 times that of light, give or take an error of 20 percent.

Team leader Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland used equations derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity to show that the pulses could be caused by a small, orbiting black hole plunging into the debris disk around the larger one, situated at one end of the orbital ellipse.

It shows a solar eclipse from 1919, the same eclipse that was used by astronomer Arthur Eddington to prove Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Black holes are usually described using Einstein's equations of general relativity, which dictate how gravity molds the shape of space - time.

So if astronomers can understand the physics of the matter that is flowing into the black hole, they can use it to test the predictions of general relativity as never before — but only if the movement of the matter in the accretion disc can be completely understood.

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.

If these results, expected soon, do not agree with the measurements of the expansion history of space — the measurements made by methods used by JDEM — it would indicate that something is wrong with general relativity.

After 49 years and $ 750 million, a Stanford University experiment using superconducting niobium spheres confirmed parts of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Indeed, researchers didn't truly nail the light - bending prediction until they used quasar measurements made in the 1960s, says physicist Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis, an expert in tests of general relativity.

The orbit of S0 - 2 (light blue) located near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will be used to test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and generate potentially new gravitational models.

We have also added in the fact that the clocks can be used to test Einstein's theory of special, as well as general, relativity.

It was created by solving equations from Einstein's general theory of relativity using LIGO data.

The super-accurate clocks will also be used to conduct unprecedented tests of Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

19 Today general relativity is so well understood that it is used to weigh galaxies and locate distant planets by the way they bend light.

To investigate, Adams and his team used a mathematical duality between Einstein's theory of general relativity — which describes gravity near black holes — and fluid dynamics.

But apart from its use in cosmology, general relativity was not widely applied to scientific problems in its first four decades.

Using the new clock's precision, you could in theory discern time differences at the level of a centimetre, allowing us to test general relativity well beyond what has been done so far.

The orbits of two stars, S0 - 2 and S0 - 38 located near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will be used to test Einstein's theory of General Relativity and potentially generate new gravitational models.

These can be used to provide unique tests of gravity and General Relativity in the strong - field regime.