Søren Kierkegaard on the Religious Problem

Søren Kierkegaard on the Existential Problem

Road to General Relativity - November 25th 1915

November 25th 1915

Gravity is communicated by the shape of the universe, warps and curves in space and time. This is the heart of the new picture of how gravity works. This is the heart of the General Theory of Relativity.

~Brian Greene

Road to General Relativity - November 18th 1915

November 18th 1915
 
[Einstein] receives a paper from [German mathematician] David Hilbert, and this paper completely shatters Einstein's triumphant mood.

~Brian Greene
 

Road to General Relativity - November 11th 1915

November 11th 1915

Mercury had a particular (peculiar) orbit around the sun, which baffled Newtonian-oriented physicists. Albert Einstein made a bold, fateful decision: To apply the equations he had been working on for the General Theory of Relativity, and ... it worked! His equations predicted the orbit that Mercury took.

Road to General Relativity - November 4th 1915

November 4th 2015

"It is quite an unnerving moment for Albert Einstein, because for the first time in his long journey, he realizes that he's got stiff competition on this final leg of the race toward the General Theory of Relativity."

~Brian Greene

What was the unnerving moment?