| | However, "even though General Relativity has passed many tests, most physicists don’t believe it is ultimately correct because it conflicts with [[quantum mechanics]]." [http://newsdesk.org/2010/08/conservapedia-calls-theory-of-relativity-a-liberal-conspiracy/] Hopefully, within the next few years, a 'theory of everything' will be found, that will combine general relativity and quantum mechanics into one, thus ending the conflict. | | However, "even though General Relativity has passed many tests, most physicists don’t believe it is ultimately correct because it conflicts with [[quantum mechanics]]." [http://newsdesk.org/2010/08/conservapedia-calls-theory-of-relativity-a-liberal-conspiracy/] Hopefully, within the next few years, a 'theory of everything' will be found, that will combine general relativity and quantum mechanics into one, thus ending the conflict. |
| − | General relativity, like [[quantum mechanics]] (the other of the two theories comprising "modern physics") both have reputations for being notoriously complicated and difficult to understand. In fact, in the early decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, general relativity was praised, and was one of the key moments in Einstein's rise to fame as the greatest scientist of his time. General relativity and quantum mechanics are both advanced college-level and postgraduate level topics. Hence this article can't possibly give a comprehensive explation of general relativity at the expert level, because it is written by conservapedia. Conserva pedia is the result of dumb bigots. How dumb they are. They hate liber als, yet the creator of conser vapedia went to an ivy league school, which is liber al. Also, they hate liber als, even though people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and other computer pioneers who led to the creation of the internet and other resources used by conser vative hogs like those who made conse rvapedia, were all libe rals. Therefore conser vapedia is hypocritical. The idio ts who made this website sit on their computers watching this website all day, guarding it. Don't these imbeciles have anything better to do? To the creator of this website: what a waste of an ivy league education! You use this wiki to vent about how mad you are that lib erals happen to kick your political ideologies' but t every time they debate. Do something useful with your life!! Idiot...any way back to general relativity. But we will attempt to give a rough outline, for lay people, of the general relativistic formulation of gravity. | + | General relativity, like [[quantum mechanics]] (the other of the two theories comprising "modern physics") both have reputations for being notoriously complicated and difficult to understand. In fact, in the early decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, general relativity was praised, and was one of the key moments in Einstein's rise to fame as the greatest scientist of his time. General relativity and quantum mechanics are both advanced college-level and postgraduate level topics. Hence this article can't possibly give a comprehensive explation of general relativity at the expert level, because it is written by conservapedia. But we will attempt to give a rough outline, for lay people, of the general relativistic formulation of gravity. |
| | In the [[weak field approximation]], where velocities of moving objects are low and gravitational fields are not very severe, the theory of general relativity is said to ''reduce to'' the law of universal gravitation. That is to say, under those circumstances the equations of general relativity are mathematically equivalent to the equations of Newtonian gravitation. | | In the [[weak field approximation]], where velocities of moving objects are low and gravitational fields are not very severe, the theory of general relativity is said to ''reduce to'' the law of universal gravitation. That is to say, under those circumstances the equations of general relativity are mathematically equivalent to the equations of Newtonian gravitation. |