Parallel transport around a closed loop can change a vector. This effect is used to quantify the curvature of space, via the Riemann curvature tensor.
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Parallel transport around a closed loop can change a vector. This effect is used to quantify the curvature of space, via the Riemann curvature tensor.
Greg Egan