Concept information
Preferred term
general relativity
Definition(s)
- General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalizes special relativity and refines Newton's law of universal gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time or four-dimensional 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 second order partial differential equations. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity)
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- Bondi-Sachs metric
- de Sitter metric
- Einstein-Hilbert action
- equivalence principle
- event horizon
- Friedmann Lemaître Robertson Walker metric
- Friedmann metric
- Gödel universe
- gravitational collapse
- gravitational wave
- Kerr metric
- Kerr-Newman metric
- light cone
- Minkowski metric
- Newman-Penrose formalism
- post-Newtonian approximation
- Regge calculus
- Reissner-Nordström metric
- Schwarzschild metric
- singularity
- Tolman metric
- Tomimatsu Sato metric
- Weyl metric
- wormhole
Synonym(s)
- general relativity theory
In other languages
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French
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théorie de la relativité générale
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-XZCTMGZ4-3
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