##  [General Relativity](/index.php/general-relativity) 

  ##  [General Relativity](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/general-relativity-0) 

  

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Definition

A geometric classical theory of gravitation in which mass–energy tells spacetime how to curve and curved spacetime tells matter how to move; the dynamics are encoded in the Einstein field equations relating the spacetime metric to the stress–energy content.