By the end of this video, you'll understand how general relativity completely changes our perspective on gravity, revealing it not as a force but as a result of the curvature of space-time.

Delivering the Badash Lecture, historian Matthew Stanley discusses the post-war healing effect of Einstein’s theory of general relativity Albert Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large ...

In the first major test of general relativity, astronomers in 1919 measured the deflection of light from distant stars as the starlight passed by our sun, proving that gravity does, in fact ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the ...

General relativity has withstood perhaps its toughest challenge to date. The theory, which Albert Einstein published in 1916, revolutionized our understanding of physics and the cosmos.

More by Dan Garisto This article was originally published with the title “Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio's Test” in SA Space & Physics Vol. 3 No. 4 (August 2020) ...