Challenging Einstein's Theory

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• Thomas Sotiriou (University of Nottingham)
• Friday 16 November 2018, 19:00-20:00
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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Abstract: General Relativity is a very elegant theory that changed the way we think about gravitation and appears to be in perfect agreement with observations. For a period of almost 200 years, one could make the exact same statement about Newton’s theory of gravity, and yet it came to be replaced by General Relativity. I will review how that happened and explain why one expects that General Relativity will have the same fate. I will then discuss current efforts to test General Relativity’s predictions against observations.

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This talk is part of the The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society) series.

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