05-29-2019, 04:32 PM
On PBS Hawaii tonight (Weds 29th May at 9 pm) Nova discusses Einstein's theory of general relativity. This is well timed in a couple of ways: 1) it's the 100-year anniversary of the first confirmation of the theory by observing the measured positions of stars during a solar eclipse and how they were affected by the sun's gravitational field and 2) it comes shortly after the images of the black hole Powehi with which observatories on the Big Island played a crucial role - one of the most spectacular confirmations ever of Einstein's theory.