A REVIEW OF MOVEMENT TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (100 YEARS OF EXPECTATIONS)

The general key ideas leading to the creation of the General theory of relativity and the prediction of gravitational waves are considered in the paper. The material is presented using a historiographical method which allows tracing the origination and further movement of the concepts that became kinematic and dynamic innovations in theoretical physics. The main objective pursued by authors is to develop an algorithm of actions for teachers for familiarizing of interested students of non-physical areas with scientific content of the General theory of relativity, its role in fundamental knowledge system in our days and prospects for experimental detection of gravitational waves for science and civilization.