teleparallelism
Meanings
noun
- An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.
Word forms
Etymology
From tele- + parallelism.
Synonyms
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