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896:, an observer without peer in the field of solar eclipses." He did not believe existing eclipse photos would be useful in proving Einstein's claim. In 1912 Freundlich asked if Perrine would include observation of light deflection as part of his program for the solar eclipse of October 10, 1912, in Brazil. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, loaned Perrine its intramercurial camera lenses. Perrine and the Cordoba team were the only eclipse expedition to construct specialized equipment dedicated to observing light deflection. Unfortunately all the expeditions experienced heavy rain which prevented any observations. Nevertheless, Perrine was the first astronomer to make a dedicated attempt to observe light deflection to test Einstein's prediction. 2025: 714: 950: 915:). He imagined an observer performing experiments on a rotating turntable. He noted that such an observer would find a different value for the mathematical constant π than the one predicted by Euclidean geometry. The reason is that the radius of a circle would be measured with an uncontracted ruler, but, according to special relativity, the circumference would seem to be longer because the ruler would be contracted. Since Einstein believed that the laws of physics were local, described by local fields, he concluded from this that spacetime could be locally curved. This led him to study 1852: 44: 1940:, the physical theory that describes the wave–particle duality of matter, and quantum mechanics does not currently describe gravitational attraction at relevant (microscopic) scales. There is a great deal of speculation in the physics community as to the modifications that might be needed to both general relativity and quantum mechanics in order to unite them consistently. The speculative theory that unites general relativity and quantum mechanics is usually called 908:
a factor of two because the approximation he used does not work well for things moving at near the speed of light. When Einstein completed the full theory of general relativity in 1915, he rectified this error and predicted the correct amount of light deflection caused by the Sun (1.75 seconds of arc). Eddington and Dyson in 1919 and W. W. Campbell in 1922 were able to compare their results to Einstein's corrected prediction.
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to show that clocks at the top of a box accelerating upward would run faster than clocks at the bottom. He concluded that the rate at which time passes depends on the position in a gravitational field, and that the difference in rate is proportional to the gravitational potential to a first approximation.
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In hindsight, the occluding weather and lack of results in 1912 and 1914 favored Einstein. If clear photographs and measurable results had been possible, Einstein's 1911 prediction might have been proven wrong. The amount of deflection that he calculated in 1911 was too small (0.83 seconds of arc) by
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In 1911, Einstein published another article expanding on the 1907 article. There, he considered the case of a uniformly accelerated box not in a gravitational field, and noted that it would be indistinguishable from a box sitting still in an unchanging gravitational field. He used special relativity
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General relativity has developed into an essential tool in modern astrophysics. It provides the foundation for the current understanding of black holes, regions of space where gravitational attraction is so strong that not even light can escape. Their strong gravity is thought to be responsible for
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lent his considerable prestige in the British scientific establishment in an effort to champion the work of this German scientist. Because the theory was so complex and abstruse (even today it is popularly considered the pinnacle of scientific thinking; in the early years it was even more so), it
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There have been claims that scrutiny of the specific photographs taken on the Eddington expedition showed the experimental uncertainty to be comparable to the magnitude of the effect Eddington claimed to have demonstrated, and that a 1962 British expedition concluded that the method was inherently
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unexplainable differences between the theory and the observations. Under Newton's model, gravity was the result of an attractive force between massive objects. Although even Newton was bothered by the unknown nature of that force, the basic framework was extremely successful at describing motion.
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had been accepted for more than two hundred years as a valid description of the gravitational force between masses, even though Newton himself did not regard the theory as the final word on the nature of gravity. Within a century of Newton's formulation, careful astronomical observation revealed
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unless the universe had a constant density of mass–energy–momentum. In other words, air, rock and even a vacuum should all have the same density. This inconsistency with observation sent Einstein back to the drawing board and, on 25 November 1915, Einstein presented the updated Einstein field
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by massive bodies, e.g., Jupiter, the Sun. Although the approximation was crude, it allowed him to calculate that the deflection is nonzero. Einstein urged astronomers to attempt direct observation of light deflection of fixed stars near the Sun during solar eclipses when they would be visible.
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The first piece of evidence in support of general relativity came from its correct prediction of the anomalous rate of precession of Mercury's orbit. Subsequently, Arthur Stanley Eddington's 1919 expedition confirmed Einstein's prediction of the deflection of light by the Sun during the total
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However, experiments and observations show that Einstein's description accounts for several effects that are unexplained by Newton's law, such as minute anomalies in the orbits of Mercury and other planets. General relativity also predicts novel effects of gravity, such as
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such that ω = ∞ is the same as general relativity), the amount by which it can differ from general relativity has been severely constrained by these observations. Many other alternatives to general relativity have also been ruled out by analyses of the neutron-star merger
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reported confirmation of "the Einstein theory" (specifically, the bending of light by gravitation) based on 29 May 1919 eclipse observations in Principe (Africa) and Sobral (Brazil), after the findings were presented on 6 November 1919 to a joint meeting in London of the
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Two years later, the three observatory directors, Perrine, Freundlich, and Campbell included light deflection in their expeditions to the Russian Empire for the solar eclipse of August 21, 1914. Unfortunately due to clouds and the outbreak of
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When Einstein realized that general covariance was tenable, he quickly completed the development of the field equations that are named after him. However, he made a now-famous mistake. The field equations he published in October 1915 were
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Progress in solving the field equations and understanding the solutions has been ongoing. The solution for a spherically symmetric charged object was discovered by Reissner and later rediscovered by Nordström, and is called the
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unreliable. The deflection of light during a solar eclipse was confirmed by later, more accurate observations. Some resented the newcomer's fame, notably some nationalistic German physicists, who later started the
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derived a solution for an expanding universe. However, Einstein believed that the universe was static, and since a static cosmology was not supported by the general relativistic field equations, he added a
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Roy Kerr, protagonist of the book, contributed an Afterword, saying of the book: "It is a remarkable piece of writing capturing beautifully the period we now refer to as the golden age of relativity."
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scientists was available only to Central Powers academics, for national security reasons. Some of Einstein's work did reach the United Kingdom and the United States through the efforts of the Austrian
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found evidence for the universe expanding. This resulted in Einstein dropping the cosmological constant, referring to it as "the biggest blunder in my career". At the time, it was an
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between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of
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based on another approach. When that approach was proven to be inconsistent, Einstein revisited the concept of general covariance and discovered that the hole argument was flawed.
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in Berlin to inquire as to the suitability of examining existing solar eclipse photographs to prove Einstein's prediction of light deflection. Perrine, the director of the
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claimed to have confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational deflection of starlight by the sun while photographing a solar eclipse with dual expeditions in
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published a proof that black holes are called for by the Schwarzschild solution. Additionally, the solution for a rotating massive object was obtained by
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was rumored that only three people in the world understood it. There was an illuminating, though probably apocryphal, anecdote about this. As related by
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phenomenon. At the urging of Tullio Levi-Civita, Einstein began by exploring the use of general covariance (which is essentially the use of curvature
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with Einstein's discovery of the theory. The timing of the correspondence and publications has led to a number of in depth historical analyses.
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discovered in 1915 and published in 1916 an exact solution for the case of a spherically symmetric spacetime surrounding a massive object in
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Another of Einstein's notable thought experiments about the nature of the gravitational field is that of a rotating disk (a variant of the
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Consequently, in 1907 he wrote an article, published in 1908, on acceleration under special relativity. In that article, he argued that
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is really inertial motion, and that for a freefalling observer the rules of special relativity must apply. This argument is called the
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Pardo, Kris; Fishbach, Maya; Holz, Daniel E.; Spergel, David N. (2018). "Limits on the number of spacetime dimensions from
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As Einstein later said, the reason for the development of general relativity was the preference of inertial motion within
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identifies the "golden age of general relativity" as the period roughly from 1960 to 1975, during which the study of
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In the last year of Einstein's work on general relativity he met with and corresponded with the German mathematician
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hypothesis to add in the cosmological constant, as it was only intended to justify one result (a static universe).
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in 1905. He published a Lorentz invariant theory on four-dimensional spacetime, where gravity is transmitted by
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There have been various attempts to find modifications to general relativity. The most famous of these are the
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in the form in which it is used today. This theory explains gravitation as the distortion of the structure of
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the intense radiation emitted by certain types of astronomical objects (such as active galactic nuclei or
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Campbell & Curtis (1914). "The Lick Observatory-Crocker Eclipse Expedition to BrovarĂœ, Russia".
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praised general relativity as the "greatest feat of human thinking about nature"; fellow laureate
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General relativity moved very successfully from that meeting in Warsaw, hot on the heels of the
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Boran S, Desai S, Kahya E, Woodard R (2018). "GW 170817 falsifies dark matter emulators".
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The future of theoretical physics and cosmology: celebrating Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday
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team, corroborating another prediction of the theory 100 years after it was published.
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was quoted saying it was "probably the greatest scientific discovery ever made".
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The first image of a black hole, the supermassive one at the center of galaxy
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at Cordoba, had participated in four solar eclipse expeditions while at the
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In 1912, Einstein returned to Switzerland to accept a professorship at his
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and physicists in the Netherlands, especially 1902 Nobel Prize-winner
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analysis that showed no gravitational redshift. In 1918, the
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The expanding universe and the cosmological constant
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Index

Golden age of general relativity
General relativity
Spacetime curvature schematic
Introduction
History
Timeline
Tests
Mathematical formulation
Equivalence principle
Special relativity
World line
Pseudo-Riemannian manifold
Kepler problem
Gravitational lensing
Gravitational redshift
Gravitational time dilation
Gravitational waves
Frame-dragging
Geodetic effect
Event horizon
Singularity
Black hole
Spacetime
Spacetime diagrams
Minkowski spacetime
Einstein–Rosen bridge
Linearized gravity
Einstein field equations
Friedmann
Geodesics

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