General Relativity
General relativity deals with spacetime and its behavior when an object has any behavior. It deals with things that the Special Theory of Relativity can not deal with.
Concepts
In General Relativity, spacetime is a 4D differentiable Riemannian manifold whose curvature tensor satisfies Einstein’s field equations
In this system of PDEs, is the Ricci curvature tensor, and is a summed version of the Ricci curvature tensor. The entire left hand side is sometimes known as the Einstein tensor for this reason. On the right-hand side, is the mass-energy tensor, which describes the distribution of mass-energy throughout the universe, and the constant is chosen so that General Relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics in the low-mass, low-velocity limit.
Predictions
Successful predictions of General Relativity include:
- Gravitational lensing
- Black holes
- Gravitational time dilation
- The precession of Mercury’s orbit
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