Einstein’s theory of general relativity is over 100 years old. It’s famously weird and complicated, so we’ve explained it in just five minutes.
BBC Earth’s Pierangelo Pirak and Melissa Hogenboom sat down with science writer and astrophysicist Adam Becker. He explains the whole thing, using nothing more complicated than a laser pointer, an elevator and a few clocks.
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