Tag: World line

  • VI. Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity: History and Mathematics

    A Basic Introduction to the Gravitational Field Equation One learns in elementary physics that g represents the acceleration of gravity having units of distance/(time)2 and that E represents the electric field having units of Newtons/Coulomb. We may not have appreciated when first encountering these two important vectors that the mathematical fields associated with them take identical forms, and that they…