Science
WIT scientist Dr Cormac O'Raifeartaigh
To celebrate 100 years of relativity and as part of Science Week, WIT scientist Dr Cormac O'Raifeartaigh gave a lecture, hosted by Astronomy Ireland, to over 300 at TCD earlier this week.
About the lecture
Einstein's greatest contribution to science, the general theory of relativity, was first published in May 1916. This seminar will present a brief history of the theory and explain how it led to a new view of space, time and gravitation. We will consider how general relativity led to the prediction of black holes, gravitational waves, the expanding universe and the big bang; modern astronomical evidence supporting each of these predictions will be described.
About Cormac
Dr Cormac O'Raifeartaigh is a renowned Irish physicist, based in Waterford Institute of Technology. He is an established science communicator through writing in national media and appearances on television and radio, and he never fails to draw a big crowd for his excellent lectures. Indeed, Cormac's late father, Lochlainn, was himself an established physicist of great repute around the world in the fields of supersymmetry and cosmology.
