Excerpt from the back cover: This book will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked out problems, and exercises ...

Besides quantum theory, general relativity is one of two pillars of ... happened in the very earliest instants of the big bang, for example, when the universe was very small and gravity was ...

For example, the paths taken by planets around the Sun follow geodesics and appear as elliptical orbits. Einstein published a paper in which he used his theory of general relativity to correctly p ...

After thinking about the problems for 10 years, he published the general theory of relativity. In it, he suggested that gravity is not a force, as Newton had believed, but the result of a ...

For example, general relativity predicts a black hole’s core is infinitely dense, while quantum physics suggests such ...

Click or tap on the labels below to discover each physicist's example of why general relativity continues to help explain the Universe around us. Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan reveals how the second ...

When around 1916 Einstein first used general relativity to build a cosmic model, he followed the orthodoxy of the day and assumed that the universe was static: that is, neither expanding nor ...

apparent FTL is not excluded by general relativity. Examples of FTL proposals are the Alcubierre drive and the traversable wormhole, although their physical plausibility is uncertain.

General relativity "describes how our universe was ... violent events could cause spacetime to shudder—a supernova, for example, or the titanic collision of two neutron stars or black holes.