“Newton, forgive me,” he wrote in his memoirs. “You found the only way which, in your age, was just about possible for a man of highest thought and creative power.”
In 1915, after eight years of sorting his thoughts, Einstein was trying to figure out an agent that caused gravity. And it wasn’t simply a force. According to his theory of General Relativity, gravity is much weirder: a natural consequence of a mass’s influence on space.
Albert Einstein was a German physicist who is considered as one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He developed the theory of relativity which buried Newton’s gravitational theory as old information.
His equations predicted that the universe is dynamic, ever expanding or contracting. This contradicted the predominant view that the universe was static, a view that Einstein held earlier and was a guiding factor in his development of the general theory of relativity. But his later calculations in the general theory indicated that the universe could be expanding or contracting.
Einstein agreed with Newton that space had dimension: width, length, and height.
Einstein believed space was affected by the objects in it while Newton did not.He theorized that a mass can prod space plenty. It can warp it, bend it, push it, or pull it. Gravity was just a natural outcome of a mass’s existence in space.
Experimental evidence
Although instruments can neither see nor measure space-time, several of the phenomena predicted by its warping have been confirmed.
In 1915, after eight years of sorting his thoughts, Einstein was trying to figure out an agent that caused gravity. And it wasn’t simply a force. According to his theory of General Relativity, gravity is much weirder: a natural consequence of a mass’s influence on space.
Albert Einstein was a German physicist who is considered as one of the most influential people of the 20th century. He developed the theory of relativity which buried Newton’s gravitational theory as old information.
His equations predicted that the universe is dynamic, ever expanding or contracting. This contradicted the predominant view that the universe was static, a view that Einstein held earlier and was a guiding factor in his development of the general theory of relativity. But his later calculations in the general theory indicated that the universe could be expanding or contracting.
Einstein agreed with Newton that space had dimension: width, length, and height.
Einstein believed space was affected by the objects in it while Newton did not.He theorized that a mass can prod space plenty. It can warp it, bend it, push it, or pull it. Gravity was just a natural outcome of a mass’s existence in space.
Experimental evidence
Although instruments can neither see nor measure space-time, several of the phenomena predicted by its warping have been confirmed.