General Relativity describes gravity as a manifestation of what fundamental property of spacetime?
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Physics Knowledge Database
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Published05 Dec 2025
💡 Explanation:
General Relativity, published by Albert Einstein in 1916, fundamentally describes gravity not as a force acting between masses (Newton's view), but as the curvature (or geometry) of the four-dimensional fabric of spacetime caused by the presence of mass and energy. Objects then follow the 'straightest' path (geodesics) through this curved spacetime, which we perceive as the effect of gravity. The exchange of gravitons (Option A) is the theoretical description of gravity within the framework of quantum field theory, which is a separate approach from General Relativity.