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The 201 pages that link to General relativity, each with the reason it gives.

• Albert EinsteinBroader topic: It replaced Newtonian gravity with a geometric account that Einstein developed from 1907 to 1915.

• Special relativityNarrower topic: It extends relativistic spacetime to accelerated frames and gravitation.

• Newton's laws of motionCompared with: It replaces Newtonian gravity where strong fields or high precision matter.

• Dark matterNarrower topic: It predicts how unseen mass bends light and affects cosmic motion.

• Kepler's laws of planetary motionCompared with: Relativistic effects produce small orbital deviations that Newtonian Keplerian motion cannot capture.

• Classical mechanicsCompared with: It supersedes Newtonian gravity where strong fields or high precision matter.

• Neutron starNarrower topic: Strong gravity makes relativistic structure equations essential for modeling neutron stars.

• GeodesicNarrower topic: Freely falling bodies follow spacetime geodesics in general relativity.

• Dark energyNarrower topic: Dark energy’s gravitational influence is modeled within this theory.

• Newton's law of universal gravitationCompared with: It supersedes Newtonian predictions in regimes such as strong gravity and precise relativistic timing.

• FalsifiabilityBroader topic: Its prediction of starlight bending near the Sun became a celebrated testable consequence.

• Differential geometryRelated: Its field equations use curvature to connect spacetime geometry with physical sources.

• Celestial mechanicsCompared with: It corrects Newtonian celestial mechanics when gravity is strong or precision demands are high.

• Quantum gravityNarrower topic: Its classical description supplies the gravitational dynamics quantum theories must recover.

• Bernhard RiemannRelated: Riemannian geometry supplied mathematical tools later adapted to describe curved spacetime.

• ElectromagnetismCompared with: It describes gravity geometrically, unlike electromagnetism’s gauge-field account of another fundamental interaction.

• Gravitational waveNarrower topic: Its field equations predict gravitational waves as changing spacetime curvature propagates.

• Newtonian mechanicsCompared with: It supersedes Newtonian gravity where gravitational fields are strong or precision is high.

• Gravitational lensingNarrower topic: Its curved-spacetime description predicts the bending of light near mass.

• Lagrangian mechanicsRelated: Its geodesic motion can be derived from an action-based Lagrangian description.

• Cosmic inflationNarrower topic: Inflationary expansion is modeled using relativistic gravity and cosmic spacetime.

• Einstein field equationsNarrower topic: The field equations are its central dynamical law.

• Non-Euclidean geometryRelated: Its spacetime geometry is non-Euclidean in the presence of gravity.

• Gauge theoryCompared with: Its spacetime diffeomorphism symmetry differs from internal gauge symmetry.

• Big BangRelated: Its equations provide the framework for modeling the universe’s expansion on large scales.

• Lambda-CDM modelRelated: It supplies the gravitational framework for the model’s cosmic expansion and structure growth.

• Equivalence principleNarrower topic: The equivalence principle helped Einstein build this geometric theory of gravity.

• Noether's theoremRelated: Questions about energy conservation in general relativity helped motivate Noether's 1918 work.

• GravityRelated: It replaces gravitational force with curved spacetime as the central explanation.

• Lorentz transformationCompared with: Global Lorentz transformations apply to flat spacetime, while curved spacetime generally permits only local inertial frames.

• CosmologyNarrower topic: It supplies the gravitational framework used to model cosmic evolution.

• Metric tensorRelated: Its Lorentzian metric encodes spacetime intervals and gravitational structure.

• Friedmann equationsNarrower topic: The Friedmann equations are a symmetry-reduced form of its field equations.

• Event horizonNarrower topic: Event horizons arise from the causal structure of relativistic spacetime.

• Élie CartanRelated: Cartan’s differential-geometric methods provide a frame-based formulation of gravitational spacetime.

• Newton's second lawCompared with: In strong gravitational fields, curved spacetime replaces the simple force-based account of motion.

• Escape velocityCompared with: Near compact objects, relativistic escape conditions replace the Newtonian speed formula.

• Newtonian gravityCompared with: It replaces gravitational force with spacetime curvature and succeeds where Newtonian predictions fail.

• Riemannian geometryRelated: Its spatial geometry uses Riemannian methods, while spacetime itself has a Lorentzian metric.

• String theoryRelated: String theory aims to reproduce general relativity at suitable scales.

• Event Horizon TelescopeNarrower topic: It predicts how black holes bend light and shape the observed shadow.

• Emmy NoetherRelated: Noether’s work on invariance and energy conservation addressed questions raised by general relativity.

• Hubble's lawNarrower topic: Relativistic cosmology supplied a theoretical framework for interpreting the observed expansion.

• Riemannian manifoldCompared with: Its spacetime metric is generally Lorentzian rather than positive-definite.

• Riemannian metricRelated: Its spacetime metric is a close indefinite-signature counterpart of a Riemannian metric.

• Georges LemaîtreNarrower topic: Lemaître used its field equations to derive a universe that expands.

• Proper timeNarrower topic: Its curved spacetime metric extends proper-time calculations to gravity.

• Solar eclipseRelated: The 1919 eclipse expedition measured starlight deflection near the Sun, testing a prediction of the theory.

• Weak gravitational lensingNarrower topic: The curvature of spacetime underlies the deflection measured in lensing.

• Gravitational redshiftNarrower topic: Gravitational redshift is a prediction of its account of gravity and time.