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A Crinkle in the Wrinkle of Space-time
Albert Einstein’s revolutionary general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature in the fabric of spacetime. Mathematicians at University of California, Davis have come up with a new way to crinkle that fabric while pondering shockwaves.
“We show that spacetime cannot be locally flat at a point where two shockwaves collide,” says Blake Temple, professor of mathematics at UC Davis. “This is a new kind of singularity in general relativity.”
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Post tags: Big Bang, Blake Temple, Davis, general theory of relativity, Moritz Reintjes, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, regularity singularity, spacetime, University of California, Zeke Vogler
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2012-07-31 14:02:42
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/96526/a-crinkle-in-the-wrinkle-of-space-time/
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