“Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory. — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The field equations and the whole history of general relativity have been complicated. — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“The dark-matter hypothesis is preferred mostly because the only other possibility-that we are wrong about Newton's laws, and by extension general relativity-is… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density. — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I became interested in this question of whether you can build wormholes for interstellar travel. I realized that if you had a… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Again Einstein comes to the rescue with a loophole, this time from his general relativity theory, which says that gravity is caused… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions are: What caused the Big Bang? What is the grand unified theory that… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Science is not just for an elite few. Science's vision of the universe is becoming increasingly inaccessible. That doesn't mean it's wrong.… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“Besides the argument based on the unity of nature, there are problems specific to each theory that call for unification with the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Albert Einstein was certainly the most important physicist of the twentieth century. Perhaps his greatest work was his discovery of general relativity,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” But he immediately proceeded to emphasize the role that “pure reason”… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In its final form, the general theory of relativity was just a reinterpretation of the existing mathematics of curved spaces in terms… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“It sometimes happens that mathematical methods conceived in the abstract turn out later to be so well suited to a particular application… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
“General relativity has a problem with infinities because inside a black hole the density of matter and the strength of the gravitational… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“Most kinds of matter are under pressure, but the dark energy is under tension-that is, it pulls things together rather than pushes… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Banishing zero also solves the infinity problems in general relativity. If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“We know that the uncertainty relation implies not only the absence of empty space but also the nature of the minimal content… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Things have becone even more mysterious. We have recently discovered that when we make observations at still larger scales, corresponding to billions… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“We have good reason to believe that space and time begin to merge into quantum mechanical uncertainty at distances this small; they… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Not so. You have been doing that quite frequently now. Rest easy. Later the whole of quantum mechanics will be placed in… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Rμv– 1/2 gμv R = 8πTμv The left side of the equation starts with the term Rμv, which is the Ricci tensor… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The Great Pyramid of Giza was designed in agreement with the Theory of General Relativity.” — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
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![“[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d8/albert-einstein-33_all-night_max-planck-was-one-of-the-finest-people_2647781.jpg)
![“However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient)… I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/albert-einstein-33_appropriate_however-we-select-from-nature-a-complex_2419341.jpg)
