{"id":3928630,"date":"2026-10-28T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/can-gravitational-fields-break-and-reconnect-einsteins-equations-suggest-they-can\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:03:20","slug":"can-gravitational-fields-break-and-reconnect-einsteins-equations-suggest-they-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/can-gravitational-fields-break-and-reconnect-einsteins-equations-suggest-they-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Can gravitational fields break and reconnect? Einstein&#8217;s equations suggest they can"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than a century after Einstein first devised the equations that describe gravity, physicists are still finding new ways of interpreting them. Luca Comisso, an associate research scientist in Columbia University&#8217;s departments of Astronomy and Physics and the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, and Felipe A. Asenjo of Universidad Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez in Chile, recently found a new way of looking at Einstein&#8217;s equations that reveals a striking analogy with &#8220;magnetic reconnection&#8221; in plasmas, which occurs when magnetic field lines break and reconnect, powering explosive phenomena such as solar flares.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-gravitational-fields-reconnect-einstein-equations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a century after Einstein first devised the equations that describe gravity, physicists are still finding new ways of interpreting them. Luca Comisso, an associate research scientist in Columbia University&#8217;s departments of Astronomy and Physics and the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, and Felipe A. Asenjo of Universidad Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez in Chile, recently found a new [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}