{"id":181433,"date":"2024-01-26T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrophysicist-fixes-general-relativity-by-throwing-out-a-major-law"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:25:11","slug":"astrophysicist-fixes-general-relativity-by-throwing-out-a-major-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astrophysicist-fixes-general-relativity-by-throwing-out-a-major-law","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicist \u2018Fixes\u2019 General Relativity by Throwing Out a Major Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicist-fixes-general-relativity-by-throwing-out-a-major-law2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein was one smart cookie; there\u2019s no doubt about it. But even he knew his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">general theory of relativity<\/a> \u2013 the 21st century\u2019s answer to Newton\u2019s universal theory of gravity \u2013 wasn\u2019t perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Like the second-hand car you bought using your first paycheck, it does the job for day-to-day errands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/physics-mathematics\/einstein-must-be-wrong-how-general-relativity-fails-to-explain-the-universe\">Push it too hard up a steep hill<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/radical-new-theory-could-finally-unite-the-two-biggest-frameworks-in-physics\">park it near a quantum strip mall<\/a>, and that engine shudders to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples\u2019 Friendship University of Russia astrophysics grad student Hamidreza Fazlollahi\u2019s solution is to dive under the hood and see which components aren\u2019t as essential as they seem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein was one smart cookie; there\u2019s no doubt about it. But even he knew his general theory of relativity \u2013 the 21st century\u2019s answer to Newton\u2019s universal theory of gravity \u2013 wasn\u2019t perfect. Like the second-hand car you bought using your first paycheck, it does the job for day-to-day errands. Push it too hard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}