Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

In 1915, Albert Einstein published his celebrated “The General Theory of Relativity,” the concept of curved space and warped time caused by the mass of an object was only within the grasp of professional physicists and well out of reach for the everyday layperson or school student.

Using simple construction materials and methods, the “SpaceTime Simulator” (STS) has changed that by giving the teacher and student the ability to observe a “simplified” version of Einstein’s four-dimensional Spacetime.
Using different mass spheres, the STS can now demonstrate and observe how objects are affected by the curved geometry caused by the mass of objects.

A number of demonstrations can be performed utilising Space Time Simulator (STS).
From demonstrating how a photon of light travels in a straight line with no mass present to how matter is “spaghettified” by the gravitational interactions of a simulated Black Hole.

Watch a recording of this talk (external link)