
History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 24, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Einstein's Theory of Gravity
Einstein predicted that light would be bent a fractor of two more than newtonian gravities said it would be bent. There were no other direct tests of einstein gravity for many, many years after that. It took until the 19 sixties to establish this idea that there would be event horising and an event horizon. The term black hole was suggested by John wheeler as kind of a little bit of a joke.
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