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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: UH Pressbooks - College Physics chapters 1-17 - General Relativity and Quantum Gravity. | Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Is General Relativity a simplified theory? (PDF). | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory. | Jun 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - General Relativity, a short introduction (PDF). | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Astronomy 2e - Introducing General Relativity. | Aug 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. | May 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity. | Feb 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - General Theory of Relativity. | Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pittsburgh - Einstein for Everyone - General Relativity. | Sep 24, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 24, 2017 | ||
| Added material about observations of gravitational waves. | Sep 20, 2016 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 12, 2010 |
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