OAPT C O N F E R E N C E
31 May - 2 June 2007		 Ontario Science Centre

 

Norbert Bartel

Testing Einstein's Universe

Black holes as massive as billions of suns combined, spacetime with curves and warps and galaxies speeding away almost as fast as the speed of light: that is Einstein's Universe. For 90 years, the theory of general relativity has held its place. Now the Gravity Probe B mission, led by NASA and Stanford University and contributions from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and York University, puts Einstein to an experimental test as never before. General relativity and quantum mechanics are the two pillars of modern physics. However, they are completely incompatible. Quantum mechanics has given us our modern world from the atom bomb to TV and is verified every day. General relativity, in contrast, remains verified only at a moderate level of precision. Could it be that Einstein's theory breaks down at some level?

In the second part of the talk I will show our movie "Testing Einstein's Universe"..

Biography

Norbert Bartel is Distinguished Research Professor of Astrophysics at York University..


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