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Stress-Energy Identified as Source of Curvature

General relativity connected spacetime curvature with the energy, momentum and stresses of matter, making the physical contents of the universe sources of the gravitational geometry.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna in 1921
Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921. Photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer — public domain. Wikimedia Commons source.
Year 1916BerlinPhysics

Stress-Energy Identified as Source of Curvature

1916 · Berlin · Germany · Physics

General relativity connected spacetime curvature with the energy, momentum and stresses of matter, making the physical contents of the universe sources of the gravitational geometry.