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Tetrad Fields Introduced for Unified Gravitation

Einstein adopted tetrad fields and distant parallelism as a new geometric language in an attempt to place gravitation and electromagnetism inside one unified classical field theory.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna in 1921
Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921. Photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer — public domain. Wikimedia Commons source.
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Tetrad Fields Introduced for Unified Gravitation

1928 · Berlin · Germany · Physics

Einstein adopted tetrad fields and distant parallelism as a new geometric language in an attempt to place gravitation and electromagnetism inside one unified classical field theory.