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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 123. Chapters: Absolute time and space, Bell's spaceship paradox, Black hole, Bunch Davies vacuum, Cauchy horizon, Causality conditions, Causal structure, Classical limit, Cooperstock's energy-localization hypothesis, Coordinate time, Correspondence principle, Cosmic catastrophe, Criticism of the theory of relativity, Dust (relativity), Ehrenfest paradox, Einstein group, Einstein synchronisation, Electromagnetic four-potential, Electromagnetic tensor, Event (relativity), Faster-than-light, Four-acceleration, Four-current, Four-force, Four-gradient, Four-momentum, Four-tensor, Four-vector, Four-velocity, Frame of reference, Gauged supergravity, Gravitational time dilation, Hyperbolic motion (relativity), Inertial frame of reference, Invariant mass, Invariant speed, Jackiw Teitelboim gravity, Kaluza Klein black hole, Light cone, Light cone coordinates, Liouville gravity, List of black holes, List of mathematical topics in relativity, Lorentz scalar, Newman Penrose formalism, Nonsingular black hole models, Poincare group, Presentism (philosophy of time), Principle of relativity, Proper length, Proper time, Relativistic dynamics, Relativistic mechanics, Relativistic plasma, Relativistic star, Relativity priority dispute, Rindler coordinates, Sagnac effect, Scale relativity, Spacetime, Supplee's paradox, Tetrad formalism, Very special relativity, Weyl scalar, World line, World tube. Excerpt: Albert Einstein presented the theories of Special Relativity and General Relativity in groundbreaking publications that either contained no formal references to previous literature, or referred only to a small number of his predecessors for fundamental results on which he based his theories, most notably to the work of Hendrik Lorentz for special relativity, and to the work of Gauss, Riemann, and Mach for general relativity. Subsequently claims have been put forward about both theories, asserting that they were formulated, either wholly or in part, by others before Einstein. At issue is the extent to which Einstein and various other individuals should be credited for the formulation of these theories, based on priority considerations. The general history of the development of these theories, including the contributions made by many other scientists, is found at History of special relativity and History of general relativity. Concerning special relativity, the most important names that are mentioned in discussions about the distribution of credit are Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincare, and Hermann Minkowski. Consideration is also given to numerous other scientists for either anticipations of some aspects of the theory, or else for contributions to the development or elaboration of the theory. These include Woldemar Voigt, August Foppl, Joseph Larmor, Emil Cohn, Friedrich Hasenohrl, Max Planck, Max von Laue, Gilbert Newton Lewis and Richard Chase Tolman, etc. In addition, polemics exist about alleged contributions of others such as Olinto De Pretto, and Einstein's first wife Mileva Mari, although these are not considered to have any foundation by serious scholars. Concerning general relativity, there is a controversy about the amount of credit that should go to Einstein, Grossmann, and David Hilbert. Many others (such as Gauss, Riemann, William Kingdon Clifford, Ricci, and Levi-Civita) contributed to the development of the mathematical tools and geometr
