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general relativity
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General relativity
General relativity
(
GR
, also known as the
general theory of relativity
or
GTR
) is the
geometric
theory
of
gravitation
published by
Albert Einstein
in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in
modern physics
. General relativity generalizes
special relativity
and
Newton's law of universal gravitation
, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of
space
and
time
, or
spacetime
. In particular, the
curvature
of spacetime is directly related to the
energy
and
momentum
of whatever
matter
and
radiation
are present. The relation is specified by the
Einstein field equations
, a system of
partial differential equations
.
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