General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ciufolini, Ignazio. (Editor), Matzner, Richard A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 367
• Subjects: Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Cosmology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0

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 experime...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler
• Chapter 1: John Archibald Wheeler and General Relativity
• "John Wheeler and the Recertification of General Relativity as True Physics"
• "John Archibald Wheeler:A Few Highlights of His Contributions to Physics"
• "Wheeler wormholes and the modern astrophysics"
• Chapter 2: Foundations and Tests of General Relativity
• "Unified Form of the Initial Value Conditions"
• "The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment"
• "Measurements of Space Curvature by Solar Mass"
• "Modern cosmology: early and late Universe"
• Chapter 3: Gravitational Waves
• "Introduction to gravitational waves"
• "Discovering Relic Gravitational Waves in Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation"
• "Status of Gravitational Wave Detection"
• "Search for gravitational waves with resonant detectors"
• Chapter 4: Frame dragging and gravitomagnetism
• "Rotation and Spin in Physics"
• "The gravitomagnetic influence on Earth-orbiting spacecrafts and on the lunar orbit"
• "Quasi-inertial coordinates"
• "Gravitomagnetism and its Measurement with Laser Ranging to the LAGEOS satellites and GRACE Earth Gravity Models"
• "The Relativity Mission Gravity Probe B, Testing Einsteins Universe"
• "The LARES space experiment: LARES orbit, error analysis and satellite structure"
• "The history of the so-called Lense-Thirring effect, and of related effects"
• Chapter 5: Miscellaneous
• "Gravitational fields with 2-dimensional Killing leaves and the gravitational interaction of Light"
• "Atom interferometers and optical clocks: New quantum sensors based on ultracold atoms for gravitational tests in earth laboratories and in space"
• "The York Map and the Role of Non-Inertial Frames in the Geometrical View of the Gravitational Field".