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[249] [250] LIGO-VIRGO and Fermi constrain the difference between the speed of gravity and the speed of light in vacuum to 10 −15. [251] This marks the first time electromagnetic and gravitational waves are detected from a single source, [252] [253] and give direct evidence that some (short) gamma-ray bursts are due to colliding neutron stars ...
The whole landscape of physics was changed with the discovery of Lorentz transformations, and this led to attempts to reconcile it with gravity. At the same time, experimental physicists started testing the foundations of gravity and relativity— Lorentz invariance , the gravitational deflection of light , the Eötvös experiment .
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of space and time by those masses.
The scientific revolution of the 17th century, especially the discovery of the law of gravity, began a process knowledge accumulation and specialization that gave rise to the field of physics. Mathematical advances of the 18th century gave rise to classical mechanics and the increased used of the experimental method lead new understanding of ...
1902 - James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium; 1905 - Albert Einstein first mathematically describes Brownian motion and introduces relativistic mechanics; 1915 - Emmy Noether proves Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced
This timeline also ignores, for reasons of volume and clarity: the long story of spacetime and the concept of time as the fourth dimension; e.g. the ideas of Lagrange and Wells; mathematical innovations that influenced the formalism of SR, e.g. the introduction of fibre bundles;
Pages in category "History of physics" ... History of gravitational theory; ... Timeline of condensed matter physics; Timeline of fluid and continuum mechanics;