Episode 136: Introduction to General Relativity
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Einstein's Field Equations
Einstein postulated these field equations and they've subsequently been tested experimentally. He was thinking about, hmm, maybe this whole idea of gravity as a force is actually wrong. And that led him to extrapolate from Poisson's equation to then the more general Einstein's field equations. So far, every modification of Einstein’s field equations that has been tested has been proven false. But in terms of being the right equations just for gravity itself, there seems good reason to think that Einstein's field Equations are the right ones.
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