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Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

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Einstein, A.·1916·Annalen der Physik

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Der speziellen Relativitätstheorie liegt folgendes Postulat zugrunde, welchem auch durch die Galilei-Newtonsche Mechanik Genüge geleistet wird: Wird ein Koordinatensystem K so gewählt, daß in bezug auf dasselbe die physikalischen Gesetze in ihrer einfachsten Form gelten, so gelten dieselben Gesetze auch in Bezug auf jedes andere Koordinatensystem K′, das relativ zu K in gleichförmiger Translationsbewegung begriffen ist. Dieses Postulat nennen wir „spezielles Relativitätsprinzip“. Durch das Wort „speziell” soll angedeutet werden, daß das Prinzip auf den Fall beschränkt ist, daß K′ eine gleichförmige Translationsbewegung gegen Kausführt, daß sich aber die Gleichwertigkeit von K′ und K nicht auf den Fall ungleichförmiger Bewegung von K′ gegen K erstreckt.

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  • Energy conservation is non-trivial in general relativity because curved spacetime can become time-dependent.

    “Thus the energy conservation is non-trivial in general relativity[11], since the curved spacetime can become time-dependent.”

    From Is energy conserved in general relativity? (2025) · cites this paper as [11]

    In §15 and §17 (page unavailable), Einstein treats energy conservation as requiring an account of both matter and the gravitational field; §15 also notes that the gravitational-field energy components do not form a tensor. The discussion of the metric describes its components as functions of space and time, but the paper does not explicitly give time-dependent curved spacetime as the reason energy conservation is non-trivial. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Einstein, A.
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Einstein, A.
Venue
Annalen der Physik
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1916-01
Volume
354
Issue
7
Pages
769-822
ISSN
  • 0003-3804 (ISSN-L)
  • 1521-3889
OpenAlex
W2154432883
Cited by
3,468
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Citations by year
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FWCI
133.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Advanced Differential Geometry Research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Keywords
general relativity, special relativity, principle of relativity, Galilean relativity, inertial frames

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