Speaker
Susan Scott
(The Australian National University)
Description
The general theory of relativity, presented by Albert Einstein in 1915, has been well tested over the last century, and has led to far-reaching consequences, most of which were foreseen by Einstein himself. Two notable exceptions were that he did not predict the prevalence of space-time singularities throughout general solutions of the Einstein field equation, and although he knew that gravitational waves were a prediction of his theory, he believed that they were far too small for humanity to ever possibly detect them. In this talk I will discuss aspects of my ongoing research related to these two central, and evolving, subfields of general relativity.
Author
Susan Scott
(The Australian National University)
