Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 138 pages
- Published by: Birkhäuser Basel
- Edition: 1st Edition October 4, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 3764385235
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-3764385231
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 14.1 ounces
Product Description
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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