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Is Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity Perfect ? Familiar as it may seem, gravity remains a mystery to modem physics. De
Is Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity Perfect ? Familiar as it may seem, gravity remains a mystery to modem physics. De
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2013-07-08
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Is Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity Perfect ?
Familiar as it may seem, gravity remains a mystery to modem physics. Despite several decades of trying, scientists have failed to fit Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity holds big objects together, with the quantum mechanics (an extension of statistical mechanics based on quantum theory) he pioneered, which describes the tiny fundamental particles of which matter consists and the forces by which they interact. Recent discoveries have highlighted further problems.
Many physicists are therefore entertaining the idea that Einstein’s ideas about gravity must be wrong or at least incomplete. Showing exactly how and where the great man erred is the task of the scientists who gathered at the "Rethinking Gravity" conference at the University of Arizona in Tucson this week.
One way to test general relativity is to examine ever more closely the assumptions on which it rests, such as the equivalence principle: that gravity accelerates all objects at the same rate, regardless of their mass or composition. This principle was famously demonstrated by Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago when he simultaneously dropped cannon and musket balls, and balls made of gold, silver and wood, from the Tower of Pisa. Each appeared to hit the ground at the same time.
A more precise test requires a taller tower. In effect, researchers are sending balls all the way to the moon and back. Tom Murphy, of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues fire laser beams from the deserts of New Mexico at reflectors placed on the moon by American and Russian spacecraft in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They use a telescope to capture the small fraction of the light that returns. Because the speed of light is known, they can calculate the distance between the Earth and the moon from the time taken for light to pass through it.
According to general relativity, because the Earth and the moon orbit the sun, they should "fall" towards it at the same rate, in the same way as Galileo’s balls fell to the ground. By repeatedly measuring the distance between them, scientists can calculate the orbits of the Earth and the moon around the sun relative to each other. If the equivalence principle were violated, the moon’s orbit around the Earth would not appear straight, either towards or away from the sun. So far, Dr. Murphy told the conference, these experiments have merely confirmed the equivalence principle to one part in 10 trillion. Dr. Murphy and his colleagues hope that even more precise measurements could ultimately show general relativity to be only approximately correct. This would usher in a hew revolution in physics.
Scientists present at the "Rethinking Gravity" conference______.
选项
A、unanimously believe that Einstein’s theory of gravity is wrong
B、have found further problems about the theory of gravity
C、question the assumptions of general gravity
D、are trying to find out the possible flaws of the gravity theory
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。根据“Rethinking Gravity”conference定位到第二段。可以发现该大会的目的是找出爱因斯坦的引力理论的错误(erred),[D]项的flaws与原文相符。[A]项unanimously过于绝对,与原文中many scientists不符.[B]项时态为现在完成时,说明科学家们已经找到错误,同样与原文不符;[C]项质疑的对象错误.质疑的不是“广义相对论的假设前提”,而是“广义相对论”本身。
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