PROVIGO LECTURE
Einstein's Incredible Legacy
Dr. Philip Mannheim
Department of Physics,
University of Connecticut
Thursday, November 23, 2006
7:00 PM
Bishop's Williams Hall (Johnson 200)
Even though gravity has been known since antiquity, and even though it is familiar to each and every one of us in our daily lives, nonetheless, through the advent of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, gravity has been found to possess aspects which are far removed from our everyday experience, and which are at the frontier of current research. This theory has led us to concepts such as black holes, wormholes, dark matter, and to the big bang theory of creation. A presentation of all of these remarkable developments and an assessment of the current overall status of the theory will be made at a general pedagogical level.
