A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been wildly successful at describing how gravity works and how it shapes the large-scale structure of the universe. It’s summed up in a saying by the physicist John Wheeler: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve.” Yet the mathematics of general relativity is also profoundly counterintuitive.
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