Why Time Is Encoded in the Geometry of Space
An Introduction to Geometrodynamics
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10 min readDec 18, 2020
In Albert Einstein’s original formulation of general relativity (his theory of gravity), the fundamental field is the metric tensor g and the theory is covariant in spacetime. Covariance (more precisely general covariance) “consists of the invariance of the form of physical laws under arbitrary coordinate transformations.” The…