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When Albert Einstein figured out the Theory of Relativity, he became a (n) house-hold name over-night. Einstein’s earliest Theory of Relativity of time and space was special Relativity. It proposed that time and space isn’t absolute. Beginning in 1917 Einstein along with other Physics applied general relativity to evolution and the structure of the universe as a whole.

When Albert Einstein created the Theory of Relativity, he was a (n) instant start around the world. He created his theory in 1919, when he was at the age of 40 years old. This whole idea of the Theory of Relativity came for an astonishing solar eclipse. This was an experiment that had confirmed that light rays form distant starts were deflected by the gravity of the sun just in the amount that Einstein had predicted. This had proved his Theory of gravity and also Relativity. Since Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity, made more than 250 years ago, this had been the biggest finding in the physics and the world. Einstein had become a hero, and a star. Now the myth-building really took off for Einstein. The headlines in all of the newspapers across the world had his picture on it. Take November 8, 1919, London //Times// had a (n) article with the headline stating "The Revolution in Science/ Einstein Versus Newton." And then two days later the New York Times reads, "Lights All Askew in the Heaves/ Men of Science More Or Less Agog over Results of Eclipse Observations/ Einstein Theory Triumphs." The world was exhausted from World War I, and eager for some sign of humankind’s nobility. Suddenly here was a modest scientific genius. Seemingly interested only in pure intellectual pursuits.

What is General Relativity you ask? Well it is very simple. Einstein’s earliest Theory of time and space was Special Relativity. It proposed that time and space isn’t absolute. Take a ticking time clock for example. The rate of the clock would deepen on the motion of the observer of that particular clock. Likewise for that of a yard stick. When this idea was published in 1915, general relativity proposed that gravity, as well as motion, can affect the intervals of time and space. The big key idea of it was that called the equivalence principal, is that gravity pulling in one direction, is completely equivalent to a (n) acceleration in the opposite direction. Take a car for example. The car is acceleration forwards, and it feels just like sideways gravity pushing you back against your seat. Or take a (n) elevator for example. The elevator floor is moving upwards, and it feels as if gravity is pushing you down into the floor, or vise versa, if the elevator is moving down, it feels as if the floor is giving out and you’re staying in place. So therefore if gravity is equivalent to acceleration, and if motion affects measurements of time and space, (as we proved in special relativity.) Then it follows that gravity does so as well. For example. The angles of a triangle don't add up to 180 degrees anymore, and clocks tick more slowly the closer they are to a gravitational mass like the sun for example. Many of these predictions have been proved by experiments, suck as bending of light by gravity, and a tiny shift in the orbit of the planet of Mercury. But two of the strangest predictions and the two strangest confirmed by experiments, are the existence of black holes and of the effect of gravity on the universe as a (n) whole. (Cosmology.)

Beginning in 1917 Einstein along with other physicist applied general relativity to evolution and the structure of the universe as a whole. The leading of Cosmological theory, called the big bang theory. This theory was created and formulated in 1922 by a Russian mathematician and meteorologist Alexander Friedman. He began with Einstein’s General Relativity and found a solution to those equations in which the universe began in a state of extremely high density and temperature (The so-called big bang) and then expanded in time, thinning out and cooling as it did so. One of the most stunning, if not the most stunning founding in the big bang theory, is that the universe that we so call home, is presumed to be 10 billion years old. He was able to find this out with a result obtained form the rate at which distant galaxies are flying away from each other. From very local methods, such as the dating of radioactive rocks on Earth. Because of all of the findings in the big bang theory, it is imaginable that the universe that we call home can and will continue expanding forever. Just as long as the inward gravity isn't sufficiently strong to counterbalance the outward motion of galaxies. If it were to do a so called "uncounterbalance" the universe would reach its maxium point of expiation, and then slowly but surely shrink in size. Einstein’s founding of the Theory of General Relativity may be the biggest finding in the history of science. Mainly for helping find the big bang theory, and to find out how we all came to existence, and also how our world came to existence. The Theory of Relativity had very little foundation in the beginning, being that no one had ever come up with this type of theory.

The Theory of Relativity was invented by Albert Einstein. Back in 1919. He was automatically famous around the world. He made the assumption, that you would have a different prospective on the same event, from a different angle. Also he said that when you’re in and elevator, it feels as if the floor is moving up, and that gravity is pushing you down. These two major concepts of the Theory of Relativity, are both true. He gained major headlines, from big newspaper companies, such as the London //Times// and the New York Times. He along with others created the founding of the big bang theory with the theory of relativity. He was again a star

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