Sentences with phrase «while general relativity»

Most I think would assume that while General Relativity had strictly speaking replaced it, it was a good enough approximation for all practical purposes, but in fact if you limited gravity to the speed of light, the solar system would entirely fly apart after a few hundred thousand years.

Not exact matches

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.

Unfortunately, while the firewall would play by the rules of quantum mechanics, it would violate Einstein's theory of general relativity.

In between, general relativity has made its mark on the Global Positioning System, while explaining anomalous planetary orbits and the whirling death dances of the remnants of giant stars.

It was Karl Popper who first identified what he called «the demarcation problem» of finding a criterion to distinguish between empirical science, such as the successful 1919 test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and pseudoscience, such as Freud's theories, whose adherents sought only confirming evidence while ignoring disconfirming cases.

In the 1960s, Weiss came up with the idea for a laser gravitational wave detector while teaching a class on general relativity.

However, if we assume the general principle of relativity is valid, the Earth can be considered as being at rest while the swinging plane of the pendulum and the night sky are rotating.

Einstein's imagination gave birth to general relativity's core idea as he gazed out his office window while he was supposed to be evaluating patents.

Clinically competent and compassionate while simultaneously thinking logically about harmonizing quantum physics and general relativity by means of M theory.