An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books… — Felix Alba-Juez 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
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
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
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
Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
“Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
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
We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
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Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“The brain has allowed us to perform extraordinary feats from discovering general relativity to painting the Sistine Chapel, from building airplanes to… — Adam Gazzaley Copy Share Image
“GPS timing is incredibly precise; of all the problems in engineering, it’s one of the only ones in which engineers have been… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity.… — Walter Isaacson 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
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
“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
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