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Before diving in to the mathematics of general relativity, it is important to understand what the physical, conceptual motivations were to consider such a radically new theory of gravity. In this section, we will discover the physical principles underlying general relativity, including the most important one of all: the equivalence principle.
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Mayerson, D.R., Charles, A.M., Golec, J.E. (2019). General Relativity. In: Relativity: A Journey Through Warped Space and Time. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18914-3_4
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