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Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity

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After eight years of work Einstein presented the final form of the gravitational field equations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in November 1915, describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime by mass and energy rather than as a force. The equations are nonlinear and were expected to resist exact solution; the immediate successes were the perihelion precession of Mercury, computed by Einstein himself, and the prediction of light deflection later tested in 1919. Everything in this Journey is a consequence of these equations, and the first of those consequences arrived within weeks.

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  2. After eight years of work Einstein presented the final form of the gravitational field equations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in November 1915, describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime by mass and energy rather than as a force. The equations are nonlinear and were expected to resist exact solution; the immediate successes were the perihelion precession of Mercury, computed by Einstein himself, and the prediction of light deflection later tested in 1919. Everything in this Journey is a consequence of these equations, and the first of those consequences arrived within weeks.
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  4. Schwarzschild radius
  5. Gravitational waves
  6. Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity
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  8. Schwarzschild radius
  9. Gravitational waves
  10. Karl Schwarzschild
  11. The event horizon
  12. The photon sphere and the shadow
  13. Time dilation near a horizon
  14. Tidal stretching near a black hole
  15. Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity
  16. Schwarzschild solves the field equations for a point mass
  17. Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity
  18. GW150914 - two black holes merge and the signal reaches Earth
  19. The detection is announced and published
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  21. The first exact solution of the Einstein field equations for the vacuum outside a spherical mass, containing the radius now named for its author. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: the paper was NOT consulted in this session - WebFetch was refused by the network egress proxy for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring began. Title, venue and page range are given from the author's recall of a canonical citation and must be checked.
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