GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Part 1: The gravity For centuries, ‘Gravity’ has been the most ‘attractive’ word among the scientists and philosophers. It is the very reason for the planets to revolve around the sun as well as the objects falling towards the ground. Well, except you falling for your girl. From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, many great minds have contributed to the mankind’s understanding towards the nature of gravity. Although, Newtonian mechanics define gravity as an attraction force between masses, Einstein changed the whole way of looking into it by his revolutionary theory of general relativity. This is the first part of the general relativity series and we are going to discuss about the gravity. The search for the nature of gravity has appeared since the ancient times. Many ancient Greek, Indian, Islamic and European scientists proposed their own theories of gravity. However, they weren’t very significant as like as the one which Aristotle (4th century) had proposed. This...
