Einstein, and the Most Beautiful of All Theories
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Einstein, and the Most Beautiful of All Theories

Marco Tavora Ph.D. Marco Tavora Ph.D.

Marco Tavora Ph.D.

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发布日期: 2020年6月13日
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How the General Theory of Relativity Explains the “Anomalous” Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury

In this article, I describe one of the many (theoretical and experimental) tests that confirmed the correctness of general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravity). This calculation accurately explained the "anomalous" precession of the perihelion of Mercury (see figure below), which Newton's theory of gravitation failed to predict.

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Here is the link to the story which was published on Towards Data Science:

https://towardsdatascience.com/einstein-and-the-most-beautiful-of-all-theories-f4ad4ce7a0a2

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Reza Rastegar

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4 年

Should we say "correctness" or "usefulness" of the theory?

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Jannik Schilling

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Whenever I deal with General Relativity I think: Too beautiful, to be true ;)

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