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The General Relativity Tutorial

The General Relativity Tutorial

The General Relativity Tutorial

This note provides an informal introduction to that beautiful and amazingly accurate theory of gravity called general relativity. The goal is to explain the basic equation in this theory - Einstein's equation - with a minimum of fuss and muss.

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