{"id":4820,"date":"2015-12-17T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2015-12-17T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:33:17","slug":"exhibit-einstein-and-the-general-theory-of-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/12\/17\/exhibit-einstein-and-the-general-theory-of-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit: Einstein and the General Theory of Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2015\/12\/Pic-for-blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1100\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2015\/12\/Pic-for-blog-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pic for blog\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Our\u00a0new exhibit at the Sciences Library celebrates the life of Albert Einstein and the 100th anniversary of his <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.lib.uiowa.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.uiowa.eblib.com\/EBLWeb\/patron\/?target=patron&amp;extendedid=P_1251056_0\" >general theory of relativity<\/a>, presented for the first time\u00a0in 1915.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit explains the\u00a0general theory of relativity and it&#8217;s significance to modern physics. It also provides some interesting background information about his life and family.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the general theory of relativity, ask a librarian or check out these\u00a0cool websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spark.sciencemag.org\/generalrelativity\/\" >General Relativity: A super-quick, super-painless guide to the theory that conquered the universe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.singularityweblog.com\/the-einstein-theory-of-relativity-a-1923-silent-animated-film\/\"  class=\"broken_link\">The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A 1923 silent animated film<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our&nbsp;new exhibit at the Sciences Library celebrates the life of Albert Einstein and the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity, presented for the first time&nbsp;in 1915. The exhibit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}