Article ID: CBB000110494

Gravity as spacetime curvature (2000)

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Description Discusses proposals by Harold Jeffreys and Richard Feynman for retaining Einstein's gravitational field equations while discarding their purportedly geometrical meaning. Based on a talk given at the third annual Seven Pines Symposium on May 8, 1999.


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Authors & Contributors
Sauer, Tilman
Eisenstaedt, Jean
Rocci, Alessio
Wright, Aaron Sidney
Thorne, Kip S.
Scholz, Erhard
Concepts
Physics
Relativity, general
Gravitation
Space
Time
Relativity
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Institutions
Harvard University
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