The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment.¶
Will, C. M. (2014). The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment. Living Reviews in Relativity, 17(4), 1-117.
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Primes¶
- Equivalence Principle
- Mapped back: This applied example demonstrates
This sourceComprehensive review of equivalence-principle tests (WEP/EEP/SEP) and the universal coupling of gravity to energy-momentum.
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Will's review ties GPS accuracy to relativistic clock corrections, and separately defines universal coupling and the EEP-implies-curved-spacetime argument; it does not itself call GPS a demonstration of those two points.
“If these effects were not accurately accounted for, GPS would fail to function at its stated accuracy.”
- Mapped back: This applied example demonstrates
- Frame of Reference
- The tension between operational definitions (e.g., gyroscopes and atomic clocks as privileged-frame markers ) and theoretical definitions (e.g., inertial frames in the limit at infinity) has been systematically addressed through quantitative formulations of Mach's principle and modern tests of frame-relative gravity
This sourceGravity Probe B) and related precision measurements.
- The tension between operational definitions (e.g., gyroscopes and atomic clocks as privileged-frame markers ) and theoretical definitions (e.g., inertial frames in the limit at infinity) has been systematically addressed through quantitative formulations of Mach's principle and modern tests of frame-relative gravity
- Inertia
- Modern tests (Will 2014)
This sourceComprehensive modern review of equivalence-principle tests; weak equivalence principle (test masses fall identically in external gravitational field), Einstein equivalence principle (metric tensor is the only gravity field), strong equivalence principle (entire gravitational interaction couples universally); tests to unprecedented precision; modern experimental status of inertial-mass-gravitational-mass equivalence.
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Will's review surveys modern equivalence-principle tests, with torsion-balance limits near 2e-13 and planned space tests such as MICROSCOPE.
“A number of projects are in the development or planning stage to push the bounds on η even lower.”
- Modern tests (Will 2014)
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