General Relativity

Front

Matter tells spacetime how to curve, spacetime tells matter how to ______

Back

move

Front

What happened during the eclipse experiment?

Back

The position of stars behind the sun moved outward.

Front

Which of these provides the best analogy for what massive objects do to spacetime?

Back

Bowling ball on a rubber sheet.

Front

What is the equivalence principle?

Back

Gravity and acceleration are the same thing.

Front

What is at the center of most (maybe all) galaxies?

Back

Supermassive black hole.

Front

What is General Relativity?

Back

A theory of gravitation that describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass.

Front

What is spacetime?

Back

A four-dimensional continuum that combines the three dimensions of space with the dimension of time.

Front

How does mass affect spacetime?

Back

Mass causes spacetime to curve, influencing the motion of objects.

Front

What is a black hole?

Back

A region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

Front

What is gravitational lensing?

Back

The bending of light from distant objects due to the curvature of spacetime around massive objects.