EXPLANATION
CURRENT SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORK · GRAVITY
The theory of gravity
General relativity
Matter and energy affect the geometry of spacetime. Free-falling objects and light follow paths through that geometry, producing the effects we experience as gravity.
Extensively tested
Framework established in 1915
Known limit: no complete quantum description
Concept diagram — geometry changes the paths followed by matter and light.
PUBLISHED RESEARCH · PRESENT TO PAST
The gravity library
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1687 · MAJOR SYNTHESIS · BOOK
Newton’s Principia
A pivotal synthesis connecting laws of motion, celestial mechanics and universal gravitation within one mathematical framework.
Godfrey Kneller, 1689 · public-domain work via Wikimedia CommonsWHAT STOOD UNDERNEATH IT?
Foundations
WHAT GREW FROM IT?
Consequences
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PRIMARY / ARCHIVAL
Newton Project — Principia, 1687
Catalogue record and scholarly access to Newton’s work.
Open source ↗ AUTHORITATIVE EXPLAINER NASA — Orbits and Kepler’s LawsAccessible context for the planetary-motion stream feeding into Newton.
Open source ↗ MODERN CONTEXT Einstein Online — Classical tests of GRShows where later gravitational theory extends and tests the Newtonian picture.
Open source ↗GENERAL RELATIVITY · SOURCE REGISTER
Gravity references
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