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Einstein's Theory of Relativity is one of the pillars of modern physics. Before it and Quantum Theory's discovery/development, the world of physics still found itself lagging behind in enlightenment ideas while the rest of science progressed into the new century; the belief in a Newtonian/Mechanistic universe still rearing its head and proving to be the supposed construct of the universe by scientists everywhere. However, after these two theories became fully developed, they would take physics out of the 18th century.

Einstein and Relativity show how the world of the very large works with bending and fluctuations in the fabric of space-time, which Einstein supposes constructs all empty space. Gravity of large bodies, (ie planets/stars/galaxies), creates this curvature of space-time, and it is on the bends of larger objects that the smaller bodies revolve.



The theories of space-time and the bending effect of gravity was proven when, during a solar eclipse, pictures were taken of stars that should have been blocked out by the sun, due to the bending of light around the sun by the sun's gravity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity