• of Chicago Press in 1984, the book, a tome of almost 500 pages, covers many aspects of the general theory of relativity. It is divided into two parts...
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  • General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published...
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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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  • of special relativity, the Maxwell equations have the same form in all inertial frames of reference. In the framework of general relativity, the Maxwell...
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    Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (German: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie) began as a short paper and was eventually...
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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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  • 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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  • General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915...
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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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  • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, a 1920 book by Albert Einstein Linguistic relativity Cultural relativity Moral relativity Relativity Music...
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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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    The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1922 that compiled...
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    Although Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (equations presented in 1915 and published in 1916 ), contains some of the most powerful arguments...
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  • Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples'...
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  • General Relativity and Gravitation is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It was established in 1970, and is published by Springer Science+Business...
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  • Gravitation is a widely adopted textbook on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald...
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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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  • Criticism of the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein was mainly expressed in the early years after its publication in the early twentieth century,...
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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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  • have made major contributions to the (mainstream) development of general relativity, as acknowledged by standard texts on the subject. Some related lists...
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    In physics, the relativity of simultaneity is the concept that distant simultaneity – whether two spatially separated events occur at the same time – is...
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  • silent film would be unsuccessful in presenting the theory of relativity to the general public, arguing that only as part of a broader educational package...
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    In general relativity, Birkhoff's theorem states that any spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum field equations must be static and asymptotically...
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    Albert Einstein's discovery of the gravitational field equations of general relativity and David Hilbert's almost simultaneous derivation of the theory using...
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    Albert Einstein presented the theories of special relativity and general relativity in publications that either contained no formal references to previous...
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    Four-tensor (category General relativity)
    specifically for special relativity and general relativity, a four-tensor is an abbreviation for a tensor in a four-dimensional spacetime. General four-tensors are...
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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 following is a timeline of gravitational physics and general relativity. 3rd century B.C. – Aristarchus of Samos proposes the heliocentric model. 1543...
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  • gravitation. The latter lies in the domain of general relativity and the corresponding tests of general relativity must be considered. The predominant theory...
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  • A frame field in general relativity (also called a tetrad or vierbein) is a set of four pointwise-orthonormal vector fields, one timelike and three spacelike...
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