Sentences with phrase «why general relativity»
In particular, the discovery opened up a profound paradox that aims at the heart of why general relativity and quantum mechanics are so hard to reconcile.
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Why would you expect more than half the population to understand this scientific theory any more than you would expect half the population to undersand the Theory of General Relativity?
If general relativity was just a hunch, why would we have to adjust for relativistic effects to keep our GPS systems accurate?
General relativity alters the predicted amount of rotation, which explains why Mercury's orbit didn't quite align with earlier predictions.
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.
For example, in general relativity, empty space can expand faster than light, which explains why in the Big Bang scenario the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
He rigged the equations of general relativity to explain why the cosmos was standing still when it wasn't.
«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.
But then right at the very end of a really long journey you learn something like the Schwarzschild solution to the field equations of general relativity, which hinted at the existence of black holes, and suddenly you remember why you began the journey.
They see black holes as an opportunity to answer one of the biggest questions in particle physics theory: Why can't we square quantum mechanics with general relativity?
Why deal with the messiness of two theories of physics — quantum mechanics and general relativity — that don't get along with each other?
«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.