David Lovelock (born 1938) is a

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theoretical

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and

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. He is known for Lovelock theory of gravity and the

Lovelock's theorem Lovelock's theorem of general relativity says that from a local gravitational action which contains only second derivatives of the four-dimensional spacetime metric, then the only possible equations of motion are the Einstein field equations. ...

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