Thursday, October 31, 2019, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Lavinia Heisenberg, ETHZ
Abstract:
I will give a detailed introduction into the successful construction of
General Relativity from a geometrical perspective. I will introduce the
geometrical trinity of gravity, in which the same theory of General
Relativity can be constructed a la Einstein based on curvature, a la
TEGR based on torsion and a la CGR based on non-metricity, which
represents a simpler formulation of General Relativity. Starting from
the defining key properties of General Relativity I will explain in
which consistent ways these properties can be altered and discuss a few
sensible roads.