General Relativity

Posted by Paul F. Lenzi on November 29, 2015
Posted in: POETRY, Traditional Form. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 9 Comments
Einstein's Field Equation for General Relativity

Einstein’s Field Equation for General Relativity

(Regarding the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s presentation of the complete “Theory of General Relativity” to the Prussian Academy)

**************************

matter tells spacetime to curve
spacetime tells matter to move
gravity tells light to swerve
as Mercury’s sphere was to prove

**************************

“Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, Eddington replied: ‘Who’s the third?”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington

9 comments on “General Relativity”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s