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General relativity before special relativity: An unconventional overview of relativity theory

Wolfgang Rindler

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It is suggested how Bernhard Riemann might have discovered General Relativity soon after 1854 and how today’s undergraduate students can be given a glimpse of this before, or independently of, their study of Special Relativity. At the same time, the whole field of relativity theory is briefly surveyed from the space–time point of view.

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Key concepts: Theory of relativity, Four-force, Physics, Static interpretation of time, Test theories of special relativity, Special relativity, Theoretical physics, Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity