"General relativity (GR) is a geometric theory of gravitation: a gravitational field is simply curved spacetime. The gravitational time dilation implied by the equivalence principle... can be interpreted as showing the warpage of spacetime in the time direction."
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Ta-Pei Cheng, Einstein's Physics: Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity Derived, Explained, and Appraised (2013).
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