KnowraGeneral relativityLinked fromLinked fromThe 201 pages that link to General relativity, each with the reason it gives.All 201Broader topic 14Related 78Narrower topic 66Compared with 43Albert EinsteinBroader topic: It replaced Newtonian gravity with a geometric account that Einstein developed from 1907 to 1915.FalsifiabilityBroader topic: Its prediction of starlight bending near the Sun became a celebrated testable consequence.AstrophysicsBroader topic: It supplies the framework for black holes, gravitational waves, and relativistic cosmology.Scientific theoryBroader topic: Its precise predictions illustrate how theoretical explanations can reshape physics and astronomy.Mathematical physicsBroader topic: Differential geometry gives its equations a precise language for curved spacetime.Theoretical physicsBroader topic: It predicts gravitational phenomena from planetary motion to black holes and gravitational waves.PhysicsBroader topic: It describes gravity where Newtonian predictions fail, including black holes and cosmic expansion.Hamilton's principleBroader topic: The Einstein field equations follow from varying the gravitational action.GravitationBroader topic: It gives the relativistic account of gravitation stated in the definition.Classical field theoryBroader topic: It treats the spacetime metric as a dynamical classical field.Principle of relativityBroader topic: Its broader formulation extends relativity beyond global inertial frames.Theory of relativityBroader topic: It extends relativistic reasoning to gravity and accelerated frames.Principle of covarianceBroader topic: Its equations are formulated covariantly under arbitrary coordinate transformations.RelativityBroader topic: It extends relativity to gravity and accelerated motion.