Is relativity difficult to read?

While relativity has a reputation for being intimidatingly difficult, it’s a peculiar kind of difficulty. Coming at the subject without any preparation, you hear all kinds of crazy things about time dilating and space stretching, and it seems all very recondite and baffling.

What do I need to know before learning general relativity?

What Are The Prerequisites For General Relativity?

• A basic understanding of special relativity.
• Electromagnetism (optional, but helpful)
• Newtonian mechanics (optional, but helpful)
• A solid understanding of calculus and vectors.
• Basics of linear algebra (optional, but helpful)
• Basics of tensors and differential geometry.

Is general relativity math or physics?

Almost all undergraduate general relativity texts published in the 21st century turn the focus decisively away from the math and toward the physics. But even within that common philosophy, the mathematical challenge remains, and it is handled differently in each of the remaining three approaches.

What math do you need to know to understand general relativity?

Once you have grocked special relativity you can understand general relativity as a generalisation of the same mathematical principles but instead of vector and matrix algebra you use vector calculus and tensor analysis. Learning general relativity is mostly about learning differential geometry.

Why is general relativity so complicated?

Problems in Newtonian mechanics can be difficult enough to solve but the much greater mathematical complexity in General Relativity means that problems in GR can only be solved in cases of very special symmetry, in which the number of independent equations can be reduced dramatically.

What general relativity Cannot explain?

Our observations are consistent with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It cannot fully explain gravity inside a black hole, and at some point we will need to move beyond Einstein’s theory to a more comprehensive theory of gravity that explains what a black hole is.”

What is the best book on general relativity you have read?

Gravitation by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Wheeler, is pretty much the authoritative reference on general relativity (to the extent that one exists). It discusses many aspects and applications of the theory in far more mathematical and logical detail than any other book I’ve seen.

Is the special theory of relativity correct?

Second, for the two basic principles of special theory of relativity and the two basic principles of general theory of relativity, no one is generally correct. Third, establishes the physical theory from the mathematics principle instead of the physical principle.

Is Einstein’s principle of relativity self-contradictory?

The principle contains a tacit assumption that leads to self-contradiction. The next paper by Shi Yong-Cheng says that Einstein’s book “The Meaning of Relativity” contains of a supper mistake which leads to the famous twin “paradox”.

Does the theory of relativity solve the problem of experimental verification?

Tu Runsheng writes the next paper. He writes that in a limited number of experiments that support Theory of Relativity, there also exist some points that are not supportive of the theory. Therefore, Theory of Relativity does not solve the problem of experimental verification.