teleparallelism

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What does teleparallelism mean?

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.

Where does teleparallelism come from?

From tele- + parallelism.

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