Gravitation : from the Hubble length to the Planck length /

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Imprint:Bristol, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : IoP, Institute of Physics Publishing, c2005.
Description:x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5550032
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Other authors / contributors:Ciufolini, Ignazio, 1951-
Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
ISBN:0750309482 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Roberto Peron and Amedeo Balbi
  • 2. Probing spacetime in the solar system / Bruno Bertotti
  • 3. Frame-dragging and its measurement / Ignazio Ciufolini
  • 4. The special relativistic equivalence principle : gravity theory's foundation / Kenneth Nordtvedt
  • 5. Lunar laser ranging : a comprehensive probe of post-Newtonian gravity / Kenneth Nordtvedt
  • 6. The early Universe and the cosmic microwave background / Amedeo Balbi
  • 7. Strings, gravity and particle physics / Augusto Sagnotti and Alexander Sevrin.