Newton's theory was able to connect Heaven and Earth, saying that the Moon's orbit around the Earth or the planets around the sun and the fall of bodies on Earth were the same and did describe them by the same law called the Law of Universal Gravitation. But implicit in all these theories was the idea of \u200b\u200ba steady and infinite universe in space and time, had no restrictions on the velocities of the body, these may be infinite if we had enough energy, two events simultaneous in one place would be simultaneous to any observer of the universe, the action of the forces would be instantly at any distance in the universe, etc.. The rigidity of space, lack of clarity of concepts such as time and strength unsettled the young Albert Einstein who showed that our universe is big surprises, that our ancestors never imagined. Even Einstein himself was overwhelmed by their own revolutionary ideas. Einstein published the Special Theory of Relativity (1905), and the General Theory of Relativity (1915). Several experiments were leaving at risk the vision of Newton, there will thus be the way to our current worldview. In class discuss the measurements of Le Verrier, who determined the shift of the perihelion of Mercury which is impossible to explain with the theory of Newton.
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