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In 1905, Albert Einstein published four papers that changed modern science fundamentally. Among them there was an article on the electrodynamics of moving bodies that laid the foundation of Special Relativity Theory (SRT). About 10 years later, Einstein revolutionized Newton’s theory of gravitation and formulated a space-time geometrized picture of the gravitational interaction: Newton’s gravitational force was replaced by the curvature of space-time.
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Soffel, M.H., Han, WB. (2019). Introduction. In: Applied General Relativity. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19673-8_1
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