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Revolutions in modern physics, including special relativity, quantum theory and the standard model. Its extension to a grand unification of all forces of nature emerges as a quantum field theory in a fully quantized, backgroundindependent, bent spacetime. By his dynamical and gravitational theories, he explained keplers laws and established the modern quantitative science of gravitation. Reflection seismology, groundpenetrating radar, gravity on a small scale, large scale gravity and isostasy.
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