Einstein’s Niftiest Notion: General Relativity Turns 100
It’s Einstein Tuesday! In honor of the 100th anniversary of General Relativity (which is, technically, Wednesday, because that’s the anniversary of the fourth in a series of lectures Einstein gave, and the one in which he finally got the dang thing right). Please trundle over to the Speaking of Science blog, where I have a new post about the big Einstein event last night at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. We saw a new NOVA special, Inside Einstein’s Mind, that basically says the guy figured out a fundamental secret of the universe using pure brain-power.
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