Relativity

A very cold night. There's not much to do, so I am spending some of my free time trying to better understand the undecipherable. I find astronomy, quantum mechanics and astrophysics fascinating, even though the subject matter is leagues above my head.

Below is a very simple explanation of a portion of Einstein's theory of special and general relativity. Well over 100 years ago Einstein predicted the existence of black holes. He also introduced the revolutionary idea that space and time were unified, and spacetime could be manipulated by gravity. Many of his contemporaries called him far too radical; in fact, that's the main reason he couldn't find a job as a teacher early in his career. 

Thanks to modern science, we have verifiable proof that he was exactly right.

I love this quote from Heisenberg. He is best known for the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics, published almost 100 years ago. Like Einstein, he was light years ahead of his time. 

"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."