In his general theory of relativity set out in 1916
, Albert Einstein proposed that bodies such as stars cause distortions in the fabric of space, in a similar way to the effect of placing a heavy ball on a piece of elasticated material. Elsewhere in the same article:
The team believes it is just months away from humanity's first detection of gravitational waves - shifts in space and time caused by the movement of massive astronomical bodies.
Well, how
did you think
he got around?
# posted by John Schroeder @ 11/08/2005 05:35:00 AM
