Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yesterday I tackled a vexing problem: Is general relativity really that hard to ...

Monday and Thursday 12–14 in M4. After a quick introduction to Special Relativity (mechanics and electrodynamics at a finite speed of light, mathematically modelled with a quadratic form of signature ...

General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It unifies special relativity and Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bob Somerby is reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, which he calls ...

Score one more for Einstein. A new study has confirmed histheory of general relativity works on extremely large scales. The study was one of the first rigorous tests of this theoryof gravity beyond ...