Anti-de Sitter space bell. It might be described as being the "opposite" of the surface of a sphere, which has a positive curvature. General relativity is a theory of the nature of time, space and gravity in which gravity is a curvature of space and time that results from the presence of matter or energy. Energy and mass are equivalent (as expressed in the equation "E" = "mc"), and space and time can be translated into equivalent units based on the speed of light ("c" in the "E" = "mc" equation). A common analogy involves the way that a dip in a flat
Breit equation Breit equation The Breit equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by Gregory Breit in 1929 based on the Dirac equation, which formally describes two or more massive spin-1/2 particles (electrons, for example) interacting electromagnetically to the first order in perturbation theory. It accounts for magnetic interactions and retardation effects to the order of "1/c". When other quantum electrodynamic effects are negligible, this equation has been shown to give results in good agreement with experiment. It was originally derived from the Darwin Lagrangian but later vindicated by the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory and eventually quantum electrodynamics. The Breit equation is not