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  2. The Meaning of Relativity - Wikipedia

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    The Meaning of Relativity at Wikisource Identifiers refer to the 2014 reprint of the 5th edition unless otherwise noted The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921 is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1922 that compiled the 1921 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University , given by ...

  3. Introduction to general relativity - Wikipedia

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    In special relativity, energy is closely connected to momentum. In special relativity, just as space and time are different aspects of a more comprehensive entity called spacetime, energy and momentum are merely different aspects of a unified, four-dimensional quantity that physicists call four-momentum. In consequence, if energy is a source of ...

  4. List of textbooks on relativity - Wikipedia

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    The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. Cambridge University Press. Einstein considered this the finest description of the theory of relativity in any language. [3] Ludwik Silberstein (1924) The Theory of Relativity, 2nd edition, enlarged @ Internet Archive; G. D. Birkhoff (1926) Relativity and Modern Physics, Google Books snippets

  5. General relativity - Wikipedia

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    The same experimental data shows that time as measured by clocks in a gravitational field—proper time, to give the technical term—does not follow the rules of special relativity. In the language of spacetime geometry, it is not measured by the Minkowski metric. As in the Newtonian case, this is suggestive of a more general geometry.

  6. Theory of relativity - Wikipedia

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    The term "theory of relativity" was based on the expression "relative theory" (German: Relativtheorie) used in 1906 by Planck, who emphasized how the theory uses the principle of relativity. In the discussion section of the same paper, Alfred Bucherer used for the first time the expression "theory of relativity" ( German : Relativitätstheorie ).

  7. Relativity - Wikipedia

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    Numerical relativity, a subfield of computational physics that aims to establish numerical solutions to Einstein's field equations in general relativity; Principle of relativity, used in Einstein's theories and derived from Galileo's principle; Theory of relativity, a general treatment that refers to both special relativity and general relativity

  8. History of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    General relativity also predicts novel effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect of gravity on time known as gravitational time dilation. Many of these predictions have been confirmed by experiment or observation, while others are the subject of ongoing research.

  9. World line - Wikipedia

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    The use of world lines in general relativity is basically the same as in special relativity, with the difference that spacetime can be curved. A metric exists and its dynamics are determined by the Einstein field equations and are dependent on the mass-energy distribution in spacetime.