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Previous eclipses unveiled helium in the sun’s atmosphere in 1868 and helped to demonstrate the gravitational bending of light predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the early 20th century.
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Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Moving without motion Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a toolkit for solving problems involving gravity that connects mass and energy with deformations in spacetime.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
As Einstein’s general theory of relativity suggests, objects moving this fast gain mass and get weird.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
The theory provides the tools, known as invariants, that mathematicians use to distinguish among certain curved spaces — the kinds of distortions of ordinary space that exist according to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—Patrick Oster, Fortune, 10 May 2024
According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, any matter or energy can drive cosmic expansion.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 28 Apr. 2024
Or so the story goes, according to Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Fifty years later, British astronomers Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington performed measurements of the apparent shift of stars during a 1919 solar eclipse as an early test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1915, declared in part that space and time together behave like a fabric, and that the mass of a celestial body can warp that fabric and, in turn, alter the path of light itself along that curvature.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2024
Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Moving without motion Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a toolkit for solving problems involving gravity that connects mass and energy with deformations in spacetime.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
As Einstein’s general theory of relativity suggests, objects moving this fast gain mass and get weird.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
The theory provides the tools, known as invariants, that mathematicians use to distinguish among certain curved spaces — the kinds of distortions of ordinary space that exist according to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—Patrick Oster, Fortune, 10 May 2024
According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, any matter or energy can drive cosmic expansion.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 28 Apr. 2024
Or so the story goes, according to Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Fifty years later, British astronomers Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington performed measurements of the apparent shift of stars during a 1919 solar eclipse as an early test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1915, declared in part that space and time together behave like a fabric, and that the mass of a celestial body can warp that fabric and, in turn, alter the path of light itself along that curvature.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2024
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