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General Relativity confronts experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Clifford M. Will
Clifford M. Will*
Affiliation:
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We review the status of experimental tests of general relativity. These include tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle, which requires that gravitation be described by a curved-spacetime, “metric” theory of gravity. General relativity is consistent with all tests to date, including the “classical tests”: light deflection using radio interferometers, radar time delay using Viking Mars landers, and the perihelion shift of Mercury; and tests of the strong equivalence principle, such as lunar laser ranging tests of the “Nordtvedt effect”, and tests for variations in G. We also review ten years of observations of the Binary Pulsar, in which the first evidence for gravitational radiation has been found.

Type
High Precision Observations and Relativity
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 114: Relativity in Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry , 1986 , pp. 355 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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