Gravitation and InertiaEinstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They give special attention to the theory's observational checks and to two of its consequences: the predicted existence of gravitomagnetism and the origin of inertia (local inertial frames) in Einstein's general relativity: inertia here arises from mass there. |
Contents
A First Tour | 1 |
Einstein Geometrodynamics | 13 |
Tests of Einstein Geometrodynamics | 87 |
References | 168 |
Cosmology Standard Models and Homogeneous | 185 |
References | 256 |
The InitialValue Problem in Einstein | 269 |
References | 306 |
References | 374 |
Some Highlights of the Past and a Summary | 384 |
References | 399 |
MATHEMATICAL APPENDIX | 403 |
SYMBOLS AND NOTATIONS | 437 |
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FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTRONOMICAL CONSTANTS AND UNITS | 493 |
The Gravitomagnetic Field and Its Measurement | 315 |