Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
Einstein my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]â??it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity when they confront one another they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915 the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time and quantum physics which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.
What you can show using physics forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.
So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.
Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?
Relativity propped it up at least gave it the illusion of being there"¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.