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    General relativity is a theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed...
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  • The mathematics of general relativity is complex. In Newton's theories of motion, an object's length and the rate at which time passes remain constant...
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  • General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by...
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  • Galilean relativity General relativity including Introduction to general relativity Invariant List of important publications in physics: Relativity Newton's...
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  • list of persons who have made major contributions to the (mainstream) development of general relativity, as acknowledged by standard texts on the subject...
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    In physics, the special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time. In Albert...
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  • In general relativity, the metric tensor (in this context often abbreviated to simply the metric) is the fundamental object of study. The metric captures...
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  • In general relativity, a geodesic generalizes the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime. Importantly, the world line of a particle free from...
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  • General Relativity is a graduate textbook and reference on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity written by the gravitational physicist Robert...
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  • Tests of general relativity serve to establish observational evidence for the theory of general relativity. The first three tests, proposed by Albert...
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  • The two-body problem in general relativity (or relativistic two-body problem) is the determination of the motion and gravitational field of two bodies...
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  • The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and...
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  • Galilean invariance or Galilean relativity states that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames of reference. Galileo Galilei first described...
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  • Einstein field equations (category General relativity)
    In the general theory of relativity, the Einstein field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution...
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  • Adler, Ronald; Bazin, Maurice; Schiffer, Menahem (1975). Introduction to General Relativity (Second ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-000423-4.....
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  • convention" is used more broadly to include factors of the imaginary unit i and 2π, rather than just choices of sign. In relativity, the metric signature can...
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  • to general relativity are physical theories that attempt to describe the phenomenon of gravitation in competition with Einstein's theory of general relativity...
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  • DeWitt-Morette 1977) Ronald Adler, Maurice Bazin, Menahem Schiffer, Introduction to General Relativity (1965) McGraw-Hill Book Company ISBN 0-07-000423-4 (See section...
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  • Numerical relativity is one of the branches of general relativity that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems. To this end...
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  • In general relativity, a congruence (more properly, a congruence of curves) is the set of integral curves of a (nowhere vanishing) vector field in a four-dimensional...
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  • When studying and formulating Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, various mathematical structures and techniques are utilized. The main tools...
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    Archibald; Bertschinger, Edmund (2010). Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity (2nd revised ed.). Addison-Wesley. pp. 2–22. ISBN 978-0-321-51286-4...
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  • Einstein's theory of general relativity, but the universality of the gravitational constant is intact and the law still continues to be used as an excellent...
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    Sean; Carroll, Sean M. (2003). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Pearson. "String Theory/Holography/Gravity". Center for Theoretical...
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  • The idea of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF), the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is...
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  • ). Cambridge University Press. 1996. ISBN 9780521478144. Introduction to General Relativity. Cambridge University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0521-84563-2....
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    Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-8053-8732-3. Reprinted 2019. Carroll, Sean (2010). From Eternity to Here: The Quest...
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    Spacetime diagram (category Special relativity)
    Special, General and Cosmological. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850836-0. W.G.V. Rosser (1964) An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity, page 256...
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  • Taylor and Wheeler later resumed their collaboration to produce an introduction to general relativity, published in 2000 as Exploring Black Holes. The book...
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  • Schwarzschild metric (category Exact solutions in general relativity)
    Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field...
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