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📅 MIT Science Bowl Invitational 2020🎓 HS🔄 Round 10#️⃣ Question 7 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

Researchers at MIT and many other universities collaborated to construct LIGO, which detected the first gravitational waves and provided strong evidence for the theory of General Relativity. One of the fundamental ideas in general relativity is that gravity is nothing more than the curvature of spacetime described by the metric tensor. What is the name of the set of equations in general relativity that relate the metric tensor to the stress-energy tensor?

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