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Einstein’s general relativity equations: explained in plain English

Although Albert Einstein is a legendary figure in science for a large number of reasons — including E = mc² , the photoelectric effect, and the notion that the speed of light is a constant for everyone — his most enduring discovery is also the least understood: his theory of gravitation, general relativity . Before Einstein, we thought of gravitation in Newtonian terms: that everything in the…

Einstein’s general relativity equations: explained in plain English

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