Physicist and physics historian David Kaiser spoke to KSJ Fellows about how culture and politics altered the fate of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. When LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves to the world in 2016, it was the discovery of a lifetime, hailed as the ultimate confirmation of a prediction made by Einstein’s […]
Roll Over, Einstein
At a KSJ seminar, the MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser uses dessert, conspiracy theory, and the occasional particle detector to explain how scientists are trying to close the loopholes in quantum theory.