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After the formulation of Special Relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein began looking for an extension of the theory, since Special Relativity has two limits: it favors a particular class of reference frames, the inertial frames (reference frames without acceleration, for which the law of inertia holds) and it cannot describe gravitational effects.
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It is important to say that Einstein was not the only one working on these ideas, other contributions from others were crucial for General Relativity.
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Trudu, M. (2018). General Relativity, Black Holes and Planck Stars. In: Hossenfelder, S. (eds) Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64537-7_13
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