Will Gravitational Waves Confirm Einstein's General Relativity?
Abstract
Even if Einstein's General Relativity achieved a great success and overcame lots of experimental tests, it also showed some shortcomings and flaws which today advise theorists to ask if it is the definitive theory of gravity. In this proceeding paper it is shown that, if advanced projects on the detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) will improve their sensitivity, allowing to perform a GWs astronomy, accurate angular and frequency dependent response functions of interferometers for GWs arising from various Theories of Gravity, i.e. General Relativity and Extended Theories of Gravity, will be the ultimate test for General Relativity. This proceeding paper is also a short review of the Essay which won Honorable Mention at the 2009 Gravity Research Foundation Awards.
- Publication:
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Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics: International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009: Volume 1 and Volume 2
- Pub Date:
- September 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3241244
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0907.2162
- Bibcode:
- 2009AIPC.1168.1090C
- Keywords:
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- 95.85.Sz;
- 04.20.-q;
- 03.70.+k;
- Gravitational radiation magnetic fields and other observations;
- Classical general relativity;
- Theory of quantized fields;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- To appear in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rethymno, Crete (near to Chania), Greece, 18-22 September 2009