Einsteins Theory of General Relativity Made Very Easy

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity (Made Very Easy!)

The General Theory of Relativity or Theory of Invariance Events that led up to the Theory Albert Einstein The Special Theory The General Theory Consequences of the General Theory A couple of short films Questions and Answers

I never knew that! ! ? That was interesting! No Partial Differential Equations No Lorentz Transformation Equations No Boltzmann or Planck Constants No Tensors

What have… Adam and Eve Democritus Newton …in common?

The fruit of the deciduous tree of the genus Malus

Man has always asked questions: Why mustn’t we eat from the apple tree? Who are we? Why are we here? Why did God create the serpent before estate agents and lawyers? What’s wrong with the picture?

What language did Adam and Eve speak?

Democritus The Laughing Philosopher The Father of Atomic Theory ‘Athomos’ = ‘very small’ Islamic State Taliban Boko Haram Aristotle Galileo Darwin

Isaac Newton The greatest idea ever! Second greatest idea ever! Published in 1687 3 Laws of Motion Leave it Shove it Crash it Woolsthorpe Manor

John Dalton (1766 – 1844) 1830 - Originator of the modern Theory of Matter Cu = Copper Mn = Manganese Na = Sodium Colour Blind Ishahara Test Modern Science began in 1830

Joseph Thomson (1856 – 1940) Electron -1897 (Plumb Pudding) (Sir) Ernest Rutherford (1871 -1937) Proton -1911 Niels Bohr (1885 -1962) Quantum Theory

James Chadwick (1891 -1974) 1932 Discovered the Neutron

The price of a discovery for the good is the cost of evil. That is human nature! Anon

Electromagnetism Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) First colour photograph Fellows of the Royal Society Sir Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829)

Electromagnetic Spectrum Radio waves : Microwaves : Infrared Visible light rays : Ultraviolet radiation : X-rays Gamma rays The Electromagnetic Spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.

Contributors Andre-Marie Ampere : Ernest Rutherford Heinrich Hertz : James Clerk Maxwell Michael Faraday : Wilhelm Röntgen

Questions! ? What is: Light Time Space Gravity Infinity The Big Bang ? What do you see standing on the verge of the expanding Universe? John Wallis in 1657 Infinitesimal Calculus

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Why does the compass needle move and always point north? - Aged 5 What is light? Why does it move at all? Why does it travel at the speed it does? What if one were riding on a beam? If one could run fast enough, would it no longer move at all?

Speed of Light (Determined in 1849) 671 million miles in an hour Sun to Earth 8. 3 minutes 1, 860, 000 miles in 10 seconds Rocket = 5 days Jumbo = 172 days + 2 hours Alpha Centauri 4 years

1905 First automobile to exceed 100 mph Jupiter’s moon Elara discovered Las Vegas was founded Orville/Wilbur Wright's ‘Flyer III’ flight of 38. 5 km Russian ‘Potemkin’ Battleship mutiny against the Tsar Simplon Tunnel in Switzerland completed The Dufaux brothers tested their helicopter The first RAC Tourist Trophy held on the Isle of Man

Annus Mirabilis - 1905 (March - June) + October • Energy properties of light (Wave particle duality) • A patent office clerk in Berne (1902) Technical Expert (Class 3) Determining the size of atoms • Brownian Motion • Special Theory • October E = Mc 2 c is speed of light in a vacuum (c = celerias - Latin for ‘swiftness)

Jigsaw Puzzle ? ?

‘Anzeiger der Stadt Bern’ 1908 Gymnasium Application The ‘guy with the funny hair’ Dr Joseph Degenhardt Scheisskasten und Frieden Aged 16 he had written his first paper critiquing the great physicists of the day Ludwig Boltzman and Pual Drude

1915 Alexander Graham Bell called Thomas Watson First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station One millionth Model T-Ford manufactured Last liberal British government fell Massacre of Armenians by Turks Pluto photographed for the first time Poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ published The Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado founded Thomas Edison invented the telephone recording machine Typhoid Mary quarantined

The Formal Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity A theory of Space and time which leads to a theory of gravitation. It deals with Space, Time and the Structure of the Universe. Large objects such as the sun cause a distortion in space-time which is felt as gravity Causes curvature in the fabric of space Space and Time are two aspects of the same thing The Honey Effect (Gravity Probe B)

Arthur Stanley Eddington 1914: Failed attempt 1919: Proved Einstein’s prediction that gravity bends light

Relativity Predictions Time Dilation (effects of gravity on time) Black Holes Gravitational Lensing Gravitational Waves Universe bends in on itself Worm Holes Ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by violent events in the distant universe Mercury going to crash into Earth String Theory Multi-Verses? Theory breaks down at the Quantum Level and at Black Holes

Can time travel really happen? There was a young lady called Bright, Who traveled much faster than light, She set off one day in a relative way, And returned on the previous night!

Unified Field Theory (the Theory of Everything) Tired to reconcile Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Embracing: Electromagnetism Gravitation Time (Time treated differently in both)

Have we got it wrong? Not liking words like ‘could’, ‘should’, ‘maybe’, etc Ron Mattis said about crack-pot theories Separating fact from theory Physicist have been wrong! ‘The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time’, (Roberto Unger and Lee Smolin) ‘We must have a revolution in our cosmological ideas and I can fly, and honest! to revise our current knowledge of Physics adjust our Mathematics accordingly’.

Final Thought! Is man really in touch with scientific reality or can he ever hope to be so? Albert Einstein

Partial Differential Field Equation

Video Clips Relativity 1 Relativity 2 https: //youtu. be/30 Kf. Pt. Hec 4 s https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ev 9 zrt__lec

Michelson-Morley Interferometer Experiment (1879)