Teleparallelism: A New Way to Think the Gravitational Interaction

Understand

At the time it celebrates one century of existence, general relativity---Einstein's theory for gravitation---is given a companion theory: the so-called teleparallel gravity, or teleparallelism for short.

• This new theory is fully equivalent to general relativity in what concerns physical results, but is deeply different from the conceptual point of view.
• Its characteristics make of teleparallel gravity an appealing theory, which provides an entirely new way to think the gravitational interaction.