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More than a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity. The term “general” here refers to the fact that you can describe more general situations than those which the theory of special relativity is able to treat.
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Curved Space Time. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_30
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