Einstein ponders matter curving space
Should Christians believe Einstein’s theories (there are two) of Relativity? Should anyone? Since I haven’t seen any scientists oppose the theory (test it, yes; oppose no), I have always assumed that pretty much everyone accepted Einstein’s General and Special Relativity. That’s the position I was writing from when about a decade ago I wrote an article about how people can be convinced to move from believing something is impossible, to believing that that very thing is not only possible, but true. The article is titled Science and the Paradox of the Unbelievable.
The article uses as its illustration the change in the understanding of how gravity works which was ushered in by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. It starts with the original concept of gravity, formulated by the person many consider to be the father of modern science, Isaac Newton, and went on to show how Newton’s understanding, based in straight forward Euclidean space and standard time, which passes at a steady, unchanging rate, has given way to a new concept of gravity formulated by Albert Einstein in his theory of General Relativity. The point in that article was that many concepts that are common in Einstein’s theory of General Relativity were previously considered impossible and thus inconceivable, particularly to those with a good understanding of Newtonian dynamics.
