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General relativity : basic ideas and observables

Thibault Marie Alban Guillaume Damour and Thibault Damour · CERN

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This stet of lectures will review the basic ideas and techniques of the present "standard" description of gravity (i.e. general relativity). A few examples of the applications of general relativity to the description of the macroscopic world will be given (solar system, gravitational waves, black holes, cosmology). We shall then address the following questions: 1) Which elements of general relativity have been really tested so far? 2) What types of new, macroscopically coupled fields could contribute to "gravity", and yet have escaped detection so far?.

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  1. General relativity : basic ideas and observables 1993-01-18 · 1 h 1 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
CERN Academic Training Lecture,273
Taught by
Thibault Marie Alban Guillaume Damour, Thibault Damour
Year
1993
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
CERN
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