100th Anniversary of General Relativity

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8 years 4 months ago #210311 by
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's paper “Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation,” or “The Field Equations of Gravitation" which described his General Theory of Relativity. Not to be confused with the Special Theory of Relativity published in 1905.

It is also the 150th anniversary of Maxwell's paper “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,” which described the relationship between magnetism and electricity.

I read about this on Phil Plait's blog Bad Astronomy . Which I recommend reading anyway because he's awesome.

Isn't science cool? :woohoo:

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8 years 4 months ago #210314 by Zenchi
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/david-tennant-explains-einsteins-theory-awesome-animation

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8 years 4 months ago - 8 years 4 months ago #210319 by OB1Shinobi
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy

all things being relative, this is as good a contribution to the OP as anything else :silly:

http://discovermagazine.com/special-reports/einstein

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8 years 4 months ago #210323 by
and what will we know 100 years from now!!!!!?

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8 years 4 months ago - 8 years 4 months ago #210330 by
That's so amazing, thanks for sharing all the above links!

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8 years 4 months ago #210384 by OB1Shinobi
heres an article (speech by s hawking) which references einstein's theory of relativity and one of the effects it had on scientific understanding

http://www.hawking.org.uk/into-a-black-hole.html

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