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Sus Durán, José María Adán 2026-01-02T09:27:32Z 2026-01-02T09:27:32Z 2020 European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2021, vol. 11, nª 3, 33 pp. 1879-4912 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81134 10.1007/s13194-020-00311-y 1 European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 1879-4920 It has been claimed, recently, that the fact that all the non-gravitational fields are locally Poincar´e invariant and that these invariances coincide, in a certain regime, with the symmetries of the spacetime metric is miraculous in general relativity (GR). In this paper I show that, in the context of GR, it is possible to account for these so-called miracles of relativity. The way to do so involves integrating the realisation that the gravitational field equations (the Einstein field equation in GR) impose constraints on the behaviour of matter in a novel interpretation of the equivalence principle, which dictates the determination of local inertial frames through gravitational interaction. This proposed explanation of the miracles can also deal with the problematic cases for attempts at explaining them in the context of the standard geometrical perspective on relativity theory. spa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Relativity without miracles info:eu-repo/semantics/article