Why Einstein did not believe that general relativity geometrizes gravity
I argue that, contrary to folklore, Einstein never really cared for geometrizing the gravitational or (subsequently) the electromagnetic field; indeed, he thought that the very statement that General Relativity geometrizes gravity "is not saying anything at all". Instead, I shall show that...
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| description | I argue that, contrary to folklore, Einstein never really cared for geometrizing the gravitational or (subsequently) the electromagnetic field; indeed, he thought that the very statement that General Relativity geometrizes gravity "is not saying anything at all". Instead, I shall show that Einstein saw the "unification" of inertia and gravity as one of the major achievements of General Relativity. Interestingly, Einstein did not locate this unification in the field equations but in his interpretation of the geodesic equation, the law of motion of test particles. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:32a88cda-178c-4a7c-af71-38803bec92962022-03-26T13:15:34ZWhy Einstein did not believe that general relativity geometrizes gravityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:32a88cda-178c-4a7c-af71-38803bec9296Symplectic Elements at Oxford2014Lehmkuhl, DI argue that, contrary to folklore, Einstein never really cared for geometrizing the gravitational or (subsequently) the electromagnetic field; indeed, he thought that the very statement that General Relativity geometrizes gravity "is not saying anything at all". Instead, I shall show that Einstein saw the "unification" of inertia and gravity as one of the major achievements of General Relativity. Interestingly, Einstein did not locate this unification in the field equations but in his interpretation of the geodesic equation, the law of motion of test particles. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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