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General Relativity
Albert Einstein · 1915
"Gravity isn't a force pulling objects together — it's the curvature of spacetime itself caused by mass and energy, and objects simply follow the straightest possible path through that curved geometry."
A decade after special relativity, Einstein extended the theory to acceleration and gravity, replacing Newton's invisible pulling force with something stranger: mass literally bends the shape of space and time around it.
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