Large-scale atom interferometers: towards tests of general relativity (Conference Presentation)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Bouyer
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Tests Of General Relativity ◽  
Atom Interferometers

scholarly journals Testing general relativity: from local to cosmological scales

2011 ◽  
Vol 369 (1957) ◽  
pp. 5042-5057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Uzan
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Scale Structure ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
Geometric Structures ◽  
Tests Of General Relativity ◽  
The Universe

I summarize various tests of general relativity on astrophysical scales, based on the large-scale structure of the universe but also on other systems, in particular the constants of physics. I emphasize the importance of hypotheses on the geometric structures of our universe while performing such tests and discuss their complementarity as well as their possible extensions.

scholarly journals The confrontation between general relativity and experiment

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S261) ◽  
pp. 198-199
Author(s):  
Clifford M. Will
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
Weak Field ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Spacetime Geometry ◽  
Tests Of General Relativity ◽  
Laser Interferometric

AbstractWe review the experimental evidence for Einstein's general relativity. A variety of high precision null experiments confirm the Einstein Equivalence Principle, which underlies the concept that gravitation is synonymous with spacetime geometry, and must be described by a metric theory. Solar system experiments that test the weak-field, post-Newtonian limit of metric theories strongly favor general relativity. Binary pulsars test gravitational-wave damping and aspects of strong-field general relativity. During the coming decades, tests of general relativity in new regimes may be possible. Laser interferometric gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space may provide new tests via precise measurements of the properties of gravitational waves. Future efforts using X-ray, infrared, gamma-ray and gravitational-wave astronomy may one day test general relativity in the strong-field regime near black holes and neutron stars.

scholarly journals Observational challenges for the standard FLRW model

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (03) ◽  
pp. 1630007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Buchert ◽  
Alan A. Coley ◽  
Hagen Kleinert ◽  
Boudewijn F. Roukema ◽  
David L. Wiltshire
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Cosmological Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Scale Structure ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
Parallel Session

In this paper, we summarize some of the main observational challenges for the standard Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) cosmological model and describe how results recently presented in the parallel session “Large-scale Structure and Statistics” (DE3) at the “Fourteenth Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity” are related to these challenges.

General Relativity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Manton ◽  
Nicholas Mee
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Field Equation ◽  
Einstein Field Equation ◽  
Kerr Metric ◽  
Gravitational Lenses ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Spacetime Geometry ◽  
Tests Of General Relativity ◽  
Rotating Black Holes

This chapter presents the physical motivation for general relativity, derives the Einstein field equation and gives concise derivations of the main results of the theory. It begins with the equivalence principle, tidal forces in Newtonian gravity and their connection to curved spacetime geometry. This leads to a derivation of the field equation. Tests of general relativity are considered: Mercury’s perihelion advance, gravitational redshift, the deflection of starlight and gravitational lenses. The exterior and interior Schwarzschild solutions are discussed. Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are used to describe objects falling into non-rotating black holes. The Kerr metric is used to describe rotating black holes and their astrophysical consequences. Gravitational waves are described and used to explain the orbital decay of binary neutron stars. Their recent detection by LIGO and the beginning of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy is discussed. Finally, the gravitational field equations are derived from the Einstein–Hilbert action.

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