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General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

By Ignazio Ciufolini , Richard Matzner (auth.) , Richard A. Matzner (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2010
ISBN
9048137349, 9789048137343
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0
ISSN
0067-0057
Google Books ID
v0pSfo8vrtsC
Open Library ID
OL25004029M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12796105 bytes)
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library 367
Edition
1
Pages
548\560
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36
Classical and Quantum GravitationRelativity Theory;Astrophysics and Astroparticles;

Description

Observational and experimental data pertaining to gravity and cosmology are changing our view of the Universe. General relativity is a fundamental key for the understanding of these observations and its theory is undergoing a continuing enhancement of its intersection with observational and experimental data. These data include direct observations and experiments carried out in our solar system, among which there are direct gravitational wave astronomy, frame dragging and tests of gravitational theories from solar system and spacecraft observations. This book explores John Archibald Wheeler's seminal and enduring contributions in relativistic astrophysics and includes: the General Theory of Relativity and Wheeler's influence; recent developments in the confrontation of relativity with experiments; the theory describing gravitational radiation, and its detection in Earth-based and space-based interferometer detectors as well as in Earth-based bar detectors; the mathematical description of the initial value problem in relativity and applications to modeling gravitational wave sources via computational relativity; the phenomenon of frame dragging and its measurement by satellite observations. All of these areas were of direct interest to Professor John A. Wheeler and were seminally influenced by his ideas.

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