theory of gravitation

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theory
noun[C or U]
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/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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gravitation
noun
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/ˌɡræv.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɡræv.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
in science, the force that attracts all objects towards ...
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Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air including thetheoryofgravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary physics.
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This model was the firsttheoryofgravitationwhich was worked out mathematically.
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In particular, no successfultheoryofgravitationbased on a particle theory has yet been proposed.
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He has also written on such topics as the history of thetheoryofgravitation, of the energy conservation principle, and of acoustics.
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In any metrictheoryofgravitation, all gravitational effects arise from the curvature of the metric.
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General covariance is the basis of general relativity, the currenttheoryofgravitation.
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An alternativetheoryofgravitation, gauge theory gravity, replaces the principle of general covariance with a true gauge principle with new gauge fields.
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A charged black hole is one of four possible types of black holes that could exist in thetheoryofgravitationcalled general relativity.
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That is, in a relativistictheoryofgravitation, planetary orbits are stable even when the speed of gravity is equal to that of light.
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Teleparallelism refers to anytheoryofgravitationbased upon this framework.
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It could be seen from the previous success of electrodynamics that the relativistictheoryofgravitationwould have to use the concept of a field or something similar.
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His primary scientific contribution lies in the development of quantum physics, although he also contributed significantly to the fields of mechanics, theoretical optics,theoryofgravitation, physics of continuous media.
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For example, primitivists do not deny thetheoryofgravitation, as it is easy to observe everything in the world adhering to gravity in our day-to-day lives.
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General relativity predicts gravitational waves, as does anytheoryofgravitationthat obeys special relativity and so has changes in the gravitational field propagate at a finite speed.
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Other theories of gravitation require gravitational redshift, although their detailed explanations for why it appears vary.
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Also, the effect of gravitational radiation on test particles differs profoundly between scalar theories and tensor theories of gravitation such as general relativity.
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These charts have many applications in metric theories of gravitation such as general relativity.
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Scalar theories of gravitation include conformally flat theories and stratified theories with time-orthogonal space slices.
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In recent years he has become known for his controversial alternative theories of gravitation.
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For example, we have just noted that some physicists hold that more sophisticated theories of gravitation will not admit any notion of an isolated point particle.
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