ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Albert Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity has endured for more than 100 years and accurately describes how gravity works in the Universe. However, upon the 1998 discovery of the accelerating Universe, a cosmological problem arose. There was no matter or energy in Einstein’s theory that would make the Universe accelerate. Some theorists suggest the acceleration could be explained by changes in the nature of gravity at cosmological distances (meaning billions of light-years away), hence we really need to test general relativity at such a distance. And guess what? Astronomers from the Evolutionary Map of the Universe cosmology project have been collecting data on galaxies located at cosmological distances. Join Albany as she discusses the upcoming test of general relativity … at the greatest distance thus far!
