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theory_of_relativity

theory of relativity

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theory of relativity (plural theories of relativity)

  1. (physics) The generic term for the theories of special relativity and general relativity, two theories in physics developed mainly by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century from which several important results such as the equivalence of matter and energy and the Einstein field equations are derived.

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