Gravitation and Experiment [electronic resource] :Poincaré Seminar 2006 / by Thibault Damour, Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivasseau.
by Damour, Thibault [author.]; Duplantier, Bertrand [author.]; Rivasseau, Vincent [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Progress in Mathematical Physics: 52Publisher: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.Description: VII, 138 p. 35 illus. online resource.ISBN: 9783764385248.Subject(s): Physics | Relativity (Physics) | Physics | Relativity and CosmologyDDC classification: 523.1 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Relativity today -- Beyond Einstein’s Gravity -- The Double Pulsar -- Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission -- Instruments for Gravitational Wave Astronomy on Ground and in Space.
This book starts with a detailed introduction to general relativity by world expert T. Damour. It includes a review of what may lie beyond by string theorist I. Antoniadis, and collects up-to-date essays on the experimental tests of this theory. Contrary to some beliefs, general relativity is now a theory extremely well confirmed by detailed experiments, including the precise timing of the double pulsar J0737-3039 explained by M. Kramer, member of the team which discovered it in 2003, and satellite missions such as Gravity Probe B described by leading team member J. Mester. The search for detecting gravitational waves is also very much under way as reviewed by J.-Y. Vinet.
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