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Blog Post 1 - General Relativity

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Hey everyone! Thanks for tuning into this next blog post; it’s a pretty long background one, so buckle up! In this first post after the introduction, I’m going to go through a lot of the background reading on general relativity I’ve been doing recently (much of it from the textbooks Gravitation, by Wheeler, Misner, and Thorne, and Spacetime and Geometry, by Sean Carroll). General relativity is going to be a key foundational aspect of my senior project (black holes are, after all figments of general relativity; they don’t appear in classical physics at all!), so it’s worth laying some groundwork and getting it right. General relativity, if you’re unfamiliar, is the theory that Einstein came up with in order to explain the various issues and inexplicable errors that the Newtonian description of gravity was returning—most famously, one related to the precession of Mercury’s orbit over time. There were deeper, more philosophical issues with general relativity too—Newton himself remarked in

Hey everyone! Thanks for tuning into this next blog post; it’s a pretty long background one, so buckle up! In this first post after the introduction, I’m going to go through a lot of the background reading on general relativity I’ve been doing recently (much of it from the textbooks Gravitation , by Wheeler, Misner, and Thorne, and Spacetime and Geometry , by Sean Carroll). General relativity is going to be a key foundational aspect of my senior project (black holes are, after all figments of general relativity; they don’t appear in classical physics at all!), so it’s worth laying some groundw

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