Why the General Theory of Relativity is not just for physicists

Samuel Drake

Why the General Theory of Relativity is not just for physicists

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General relativity is one of humanity’s greatest intellectual leaps. Special relativity, arguably, would have been discovered without Einstein. It was ripe for it. The speed of light had been measured to be constant in a vacuum, and the mathematics of the Lorentz transformations had already been developed. But general relativity – and the idea that gravity wasn’t a force but the curvature of the space-time continuum – wow, that was just crazy talk.

In his theory, Einstein describes an effect that we now call time dilation....

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Australia Science
Publisher	The Royal Institution of Australia Inc.
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2018
Externally published	Yes

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General Theory of Relativity
Einstein
engineering applications

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