Francis Bacon Conference: General Relativity at One Hundred

Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “Francis Bacon Conference: General Relativity at One Hundred”, held at Caltech Institute of Technology and The Huntington Library on March 10–13, 2016. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Barry Barish discusses “The Quest for Gravitational Waves”. Barish is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Caltech.

Harry Collins discusses "The Search for Gravitational Waves: Sociological and Philosophical Investigations". Collins is Professor, School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

Clifford Will discusses “Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment”. Will is the Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida.

Diana Kormos-Buchwald discusses "Einstein & Caltech". Kormos-Buchwald is Professor of History at Caltech.

John H. Schwarz discusses “Unifying GR with Quantum Theory”. Brown is the Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus at Caltech.

Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, describes the ideas underlying general relativity and the amazing discoveries about warped spacetime that have been made in the past 100 years. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein formulated his general relativity theory, which describes space and time as warped by mass and energy.