general relativity (Q2508)

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geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916, positing that spacetime is a 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose curvature (Einstein tensor) is proportional to the stress–energy tensor of matter
  • general theory of relativity
  • GR
  • GTR
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general relativity
geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916, positing that spacetime is a 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold whose curvature (Einstein tensor) is proportional to the stress–energy tensor of matter
  • general theory of relativity
  • GR
  • GTR

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