General Relativity
the physical world and its laws. We begin by listing the key assumptions about spacetime in Newtonian physics and then proceed by replacing these assumptions with the postulates of special relativity. 1.1 Newtonian Physics Main assumptions The primary assumptions in Newtonian physics are the following 1.There is an absolute notion of time.
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