  An ontology of Leibnizian relationalism, consisting in distance relations
among sparse matter points and their change only, is well recognized as a
serious option in the context of classical mechanics. In this paper, we
investigate how this ontology fares when it comes to general relativistic
physics. Using a Humean strategy, we regard the gravitational field as a means
to represent the overall change in the distance relations among point particles
in a way that achieves the best combination of being simple and being
informative.
