PowerPoint Presentation The Origin of the Universe

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Todays class

• The Equivalence Principle
• The Theory of GR
• Curved Space and Time
• Geodesics
• Tests of GR
• Light bending
• The orbit of Mercury
• GPS satellites

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Weightlessness
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• Curved space around the Earth looks something
  like this

From web site of UCSD
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The Einstein Cross
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Giant lenses in the sky
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From the web site of The University of Oregon