and is the speed of light in vacuum.

The EFE can thus also be written as
:

In standard units, each term on the left has quantity dimension of L^-2.

The expression on the left represents the curvature of spacetime as determined by the metric; the expression on the right represents the stress-energy-momentum content of spacetime. The EFE can then be interpreted as a set of equations dictating how

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