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Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15-17:15
WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT?
- 👤 Speaker: Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 25 October 2006, 16:15 - 17:15
- 📍 Venue: Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory
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Leona Hope-Coles
Abstract
We review the experimental evidence for Einstein’s general relativity. Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle support the postulates of curved spacetime, while solar-system experiments strongly confirm weak-field general relativity. We describe the status of the recently concluded Stanford Gyroscope Experiment. Binary pulsars provide tests of gravitational-wave damping and of strong-field general relativity. Recently operational laser interferometric gravitational-wave observatories, and a future space interferometer, may provide new tests via the properties of gravitational waves.
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