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General relativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4302 words) |
 | It unifies special relativity and Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the insight that gravitation is not viewed as being due to a force (in the traditional sense) but rather a manifestation of curved space and time, this curvature being produced by the mass-energy content of the spacetime. |
| In general relativity, phenomena that in classical mechanics are ascribed to the action of the force of gravity (such as freefall, orbital motion, and spacecraft trajectories) are taken in general relativity to represent inertial motion in a curved spacetime. |
| General relativity was developed by Einstein in a process that began in 1907 with the publication of an article on the influence of gravity and acceleration on the behavior of light in special relativity. |
| Einstein, Albert. 1920. Relativity: The Special and General Theory (321 words) |
| The Principle of Relativity (In the Restricted Sense) |
| On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance |
| The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Relativity Is not a Euclidean Continuum |
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