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| Title | Gravitation and experiment : Poincar�e Seminar 2006 |
| Author(s) | Thibault Damour (ed.);Bertrand Duplantier (ed.);Vincent Rivasseau (ed.) |
| Publication | Basel, Birkhauser, 2007. |
| Description | 1 online resource (vii, 138 p.) : ill |
| Abstract Note | 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 dete |
| Notes | Ninth seminar held in 2006 at Institut Henri Poincar�e. -Includes bibliographical references |
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5. PULSARS
6. SCIENCE
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| Item Type | eBook |
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