Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch
General relativity, Einstein’s revolutionary theory of gravity, redefines gravity not as a force but as the curvature of space-time caused by mass and energy. Despite being the product of a single mind, it has extraordinary predictive power across scales—from falling apples to black holes
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