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Should general relativity use an acoustic metric, to make it more compatible with QM?

Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity is now nearly one hundred years old. Einstein originally designed the 1916 theory to reduce to the physics of SR over small regions, so that he...

11 November 2015 7,873 6 View

Who rewrote General Relativity?

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity seems to have “crashed” as a scientific theory in about ~1960, and to have been "rebooted" some time in the early 1960s as "modern GR" with a different set...

01 January 2015 4,894 62 View

Are there any plans to mark the Centenary of Einstein's General Theory?

Published 1916 ... we don't have that much time until 2016. Anything planned? Events? TV documentaries? Historical reviews?

07 July 2014 9,195 1 View

What is the term given to the internal field of a rotating hollow electrically charged sphere?

There's an old textbook effect whereby if you have a hollow electrically-charged sphere (where there's initially no detectable internal field because of cancellation), if you then spin the sphere,...

05 May 2014 6,189 1 View

The Newtonian Doppler equations are not time-symmetrical. Has anyone studied this?

The Newtonian Doppler equations work differently depending on whether you run them backwards or forwards. Forwards there's an energy-loss that encourages exothermicity, creating an arrow of...

01 January 1970 1,576 7 View