The Beginning of General Relativity

Dong-han YEOM

In this article, we briefly review the motivations behind general relativity. We first discuss the basics of classical physics, including the equations of motion and the field equations. Newtonian mechanics assumes absolute space and time, but this can be philosophically unnatural. Einstein constructed a general theory of classical physics with covariance for the general choice of coordinate systems. This theory is known as general relativity. Finally, we briefly mention how this theory is completed, how this theory is verified, and what can be the future of general relativity.