Teleparallelism
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Teleparallelism is a noun meaning (physics) 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.
Meaning
(physics) 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include four-current, four-momentum, spacetime, four-velocity, geometrogenesis, space-time.
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