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21 hours ago · Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. A black hole has a great effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, but it has no locally detectable features according to general relativity.
21 hours ago · Gravity as we know it is explained by Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Anything that can't be explained by it is usually thought to be due to the influence of dark matter.
May 31, 2024 · A “unified theory” that reconciles general relativity—which describes gravity and large-scale phenomena—and quantum mechanics, which governs the small-scale world of particles, is often referred to as a “theory of everything” or “quantum gravity.” Such a theory has not yet been satisfactorily formulated. General relativity and ...
21 hours ago · During the development of quantum mechanics, there was a dilemma in interpreting the physical meaning of the quantum wave function. In the mind of the traditional physicists, the electron is a physical particle (like a point mass); the quantum wave equation, on the other hand, describes the motion of a wave (matter wave).
May 31, 2024 · The quantum mechanical law generates a huge continuous smear of worlds of the kind that we actually experience. It is just then “fixed” when some conscious mind probes the question. Free will only becomes possible if the aspect of quantum mechanics that has to do with the observer, the conscious mind, is taken into the equation.
15 hours ago · Ever since those earliest days of quantum mechanics, the theory ruling the microworld of atoms and particles, the holy grail of physics has been finding a theory of everything – uniting quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which applies to the universe on large scales.
May 31, 2024 · One of the most prominent and impactful examples of the harmony between science and religion is the life and work of Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), a Roman Catholic priest who is also credited as the father of the Big Bang theory. Lemaître proposed the idea of an expanding universe, which he derived from Einstein’s theory of relativity.
