Einstein presents general relativity
November 25, 1915
After eight years of wrong turns and equations that would not close, Albert Einstein read his theory of gravity as curved spacetime to the Prussian Academy. Mass told space how to bend. Space told mass how to move. Newton had been subtly wrong for two centuries. A new geometry of the universe had appeared.
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