{"id":12541,"date":"2015-07-13T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaabot.com\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2015-07-13T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:25:08","slug":"the-relevance-of-general-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/the-relevance-of-general-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years: General Relativity Is as Relevant As Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

2015 marks 100 years since The General Theory of Relativity was dropped onto the world by Albert Einstein. The General Theory of Relativity came in a decade after the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. Aside from it’s groundbreaking implications, the theory also happened to be a very emotional one for Einstein. So far, the General Theory of Relativity continues to dominate our understanding of the universe by far, and has found itself applications in all sorts of crazily important industries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why Relativity?<\/h2>\n

Newton did change the world with his theory of Gravity back in 1687. For the first time, man had found a common law that unified the Earth and the Heavens. While it worked beautifully, and had a much larger inspirational effect, there were certain anomalies found in Newtonian classical mechanics. Some observations didn’t match predictions. This was when Einstein came up with a theory that stated that the fabric of space-time itself is curved. There have been various consequences that adhere to the theory of general relativity such as light rays bending in a gravitational field. There are many other instances to which we could relate this theory into our day to day lives. Essentially, the major implications of the theory of Relativity were:<\/span><\/p>\n