Venue: Theatre B117, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Professor David Jamieson
Over the years 1915 and 1916 Albert Einstein presented his magnificent General Theory of Relativity. The product of years of toil, it took expeditions to observe total solar eclipses visible from northern Australia in 1922 to confirm the theory. Before then it had already abolished the speculative planet Vulcan proposed to account for anomalies in the orbit of the planet Mercury. The warping of space and time predicted by the theory explained all that. This lecture reviews the origins of the theory and some more of its astounding consequences.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6467-celebrating-100-years-of-einstein-s-general-theory-of-relativity-lost
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