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SUMMARY:General relativity: gravitation and curvature of space-time
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210705
DTSTAMP:20260406T144345Z
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Nicolas Michel accompagné d'étudiants de l’EPFL\nThis
  Summer School is offered jointly by EPFL’s Education Outreach Departmen
 t and the Swiss Study Foundation from July 5-9\, 2021.\n\nIs Newton’s ap
 ple attracted to the Earth by a force or does it follow a “straight line
 ” in the space-time curved by the Earth? How can a photon\, which has no
  mass\, be deflected by gravitation? And why do objects of different masse
 s fall at the same speed?\n\nIn this context\, how did Galileo’s discove
 ries guide Einstein to the theory of special relativity\, and then to the 
 theory of general relativity? Does the latter encompass the former? And in
  what cases are these theories applicable?\n\nThese are all questions that
  the Summer School participants will try to answer during one week. From N
 ewton’s first law of motion to special relativity\, and then from Newton
 ’s second law of motion to general relativity\, the high school students
  will follow the footsteps that led to discoveries at the basis of today
 ’s work on the origin of the Universe\, gravitational waves\, and black 
 holes. In order to explain the conceptual trajectory that will lead us fr
 om Galileo-Newton space-time to the space-time of special relativity and t
 hen general relativity\, the Summer school will very much rely on mathemat
 ics\, which are at the very heart of our modern understanding of physics.
  \n\nOnline registration before 15.05.2021
LOCATION:https://www.epfl.ch/education/education-and-science-outreach/fr/g
 ymnasiens/summer-schools/relativite-generale/
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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