Galileo's Pendulum

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  • Portrait of a black hole, part 1

    General relativity is inherently challenging to understand. It requires thinking about a four-dimensional reality in which the natural paths of light and matter are curved in the presence of gravity, something we refer to as the curvature of spacetime. Yet unlike the curvature of Earth or topographic features on Earth’s surface, spacetime isn’t an object…

    Matthew R. Francis

    October 3, 2013
    Astronomy, Technical!
    black holes, general relativity, nonlinear dynamics
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