Brian Greene Quotes:
Ocupation: Theoretical Physicist
Life: b. February 9, 1963
Birthday: February 9
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury’s trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.
source: Brian Greene (2011). “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos”, p.16, Vintage
topic: Heart, Long, Support, Astronomers, Discrepancies, Palpitation, General Relativity
