In this resource, MIT professor and author (Einstein's Dreams, Good Benito, and Dance for Two) Alan Lightman explains the implications of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. General Relativity predicts, among other things, the bending of starlight by gravity, a slight irregularity in Mercury's orbit, and the existence of black holes.
Because no one else was thinking of gravity in the same terms as he was -- that is, as a geometrical phenomenon and a bending of time and space -- and because experimental results have yet to prove him wrong, Lightman states that Einstein merits the acclaim he has received as a scientist uniquely creative in his time.
