Relativity — Library Silo

Relativity comes in two layers. Special relativity (Einstein 1905) describes physics in inertial frames where the speed of light is the same for all observers, giving time dilation, length contraction, and E = mc². General relativity (Einstein 1915) extends the principle to accelerated frames and gravity, modelling gravity as the curvature of spacetime governed by the field equations Gμν = (8πG/c4) Tμν.

Empirical tests range from atomic-clock GPS corrections (+38 µs/day) and Mercury's perihelion precession to the LIGO gravitational-wave detections (2015 onward) and the Event Horizon Telescope's direct images of M87* (2019) and Sgr A* (2022).

Recent research on this topic from arXiv

Preprints and papers indexed on arXiv.org. Links open the public abstract pages.

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