What planetary orbital anomaly was successfully explained by general relativity?
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Mercury's perihelion precession
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What planetary orbital anomaly was successfully explained by general relativity?
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Mercury's perihelion precession
What effect causes light to lose energy as it climbs out of a gravitational field?
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Gravitational redshift
What is the name of the effect where a rotating mass drags spacetime around it?
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Frame-dragging
What type of time dilation is caused by differences in gravitational potential?
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Gravitational time dilation
What is the name of the hypothetical particle that travels faster than light?
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Tachyon
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What effect causes light to lose energy as it climbs out of a gravitational field?
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Gravitational redshift
What is the name of the effect where a rotating mass drags spacetime around it?
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Frame-dragging
What type of time dilation is caused by differences in gravitational potential?
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Gravitational time dilation
What is the name of the principle that states the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames?
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Principle of relativity
What effect causes a moving object to appear shorter in the direction of motion?
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Length contraction
What does the letter 'c' represent in Einstein's equation E=mc^2?
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Speed of light
Which physicist coined the term 'black hole' in 1967?
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John Archibald Wheeler