Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday physics students at Troy take two very peculiar physics classes: General Relativity in the morning and Quantum Mechanics in the afternoon. General Relativity, Einstein’s magnum opus, deals mostly with large scale structures in the universe. The deviation of planetary orbits from Newtonian laws, the slowing down of time near massive objects, the existence of certain exotic objects called black holes and the recently discovered gravitational waves are all consequences of general relativity. Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, was developed by…
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