When:
Saturday, January 18, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: Norris University Center, 2-160, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Joan West
(847) 491-3645
Group: Department of Physics and Astronomy
Category: Lectures & Meetings
"Gravity from Newton to Einstein"
We begin with a thought experiment: could we guess Newton’s theory of gravity without observing the planets and stars? From there, we explore how correcting small problems with Newtonian gravity leads us to Einstein’s general relativity.
Alex Edison, Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University