GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY
General relativity is physicist Albert Einstein's understanding of how gravity affects of fabric of space-time. Image credit: American Physical Society The theory, which Einstein published in 1915, expanded the theory of special relativity that he had published 10 years earlier. Special relativity argued that space and time are inextricably connected, but that theory didn't acknowledge the existence of gravity. Einstein spent the decade between the two publications determining that particularly massive object warp the fabric of space-time, a distortion that manifests as gravity, according to NASA. How does general relativity work? To understand general relativity, first, let's start with gravity, the force of attraction that two objects exert on the another. Sir Isaac Newton quantified gravity in this same tex...