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AMA | April 2024

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Exploring Curvature and Energy-Momentum in General Relativity

This chapter explores the Riemann curvature tensor and its connection to Einstein's equations in general relativity. It highlights the role of tensors in relating curvature to energy-momentum, with an introduction to the concept of gravitational waves as a distinction from Newtonian gravity.

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