Albert Einstein1912
Einstein increasingly identified the spacetime metric as the quantity that should represent gravitation, replacing the idea of gravity as an ordinary force field on fixed space and time.
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Einstein increasingly identified the spacetime metric as the quantity that should represent gravitation, replacing the idea of gravity as an ordinary force field on fixed space and time.
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