Terrific paper by @johncarlosbaez and Ted Emory, explaining the meaning of the Einstein field equations for general relativity: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/einstein/einstein.pdf …pic.twitter.com/65fMVQR2tH
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The standard form of the field equations is G = 8 pi T, where G is the Einstein tensor (roughly, the curvature of spacetime), and T is the stress-energy tensor (roughly, expressing mass and energy).
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John Wheeler expressed the meaning of these equations beautifully: "Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve"
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But while that expression is beautiful, it's also rather imprecise. What I like about the Baez-Emory formulation is that it's also very simple, but is mathematically precise!
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The expression is also circular reasoning.
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