Powerful computers are now allowing cosmologists to solve Einstein’s frighteningly complex equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting for the first time. Tom Giblin, James Mertens and Glenn Starkman describe how this new era of simulations could transform our understanding of the universe
Simulating the universe: solving Einstein’s equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting
07 May 2017
Tom Giblin is associate professor at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. James Mertens is a postdoc and Glenn Starkman is Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, US, e-mail glenn.starkman@case.edu