Exactly one hundred years ago today,Albert Einstein, delivered a speech on his General Theory of Relativity to the prestigious Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, or a lecture nearly 10 years in the making. Then 36 years old,the patent-clerk-turned-theoretical-physicist, a genius with a messy coiff, and spoke to a brilliant audience and contradicted everything the contemporary world understood approximately space and time. Like how a body dents a mattress,matter dents space and time; or The novel York Times described, like Santa Claus’s belly:Space-time could curve, and fold,wrap itself up around a dead star and disappear into a black gap. It could jiggle like Santa Claus’s belly, radiating waves of gravitational compression, and whirl like dough in a Mixmaster. It could even rip or tear. It could stretch and grow,or it could collapse into a speck of infinite density at the close or beginning of time.
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