Teleparallelism: A New Way to Think the Gravitational Interaction
Abstract
At the time it celebrates one century of existence, general relativity---Einstein's theory for gravitation---is given a companion theory: the so-called teleparallel gravity, or teleparallelism for short. This new theory is fully equivalent to general relativity in what concerns physical results, but is deeply different from the conceptual point of view. Its characteristics make of teleparallel gravity an appealing theory, which provides an entirely new way to think the gravitational interaction.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1506.03654
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1506.03654
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv150603654A
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Popular Physics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 6 pages. English translation of the Portuguese version published in Ciencia Hoje 55 (2015) 32