2001 - a Relativistic Spacetime Odyssey : Proceedings, 25th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, Florence, Italy 2001

by Ciufolini, Ignazio; Dominici, Daniele; Lusanna, Luca

• ISBN13: 9789812380890
• ISBN10: 9812380892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of our understanding of gravity at both the experimental and the theoretical level. Critical reviews by experts cover topics ranging from astrophysics (anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background, gamma ray bursts, neutron stars and astroparticles), cosmology, the status of gravitational wave sources and detectors, verification of Newton's law at short distances, the equivalence principle, gravito-magnetism, measurement theory, time machines and the foundations of Einstein's theory, to string theory and loop quantum gravity.

Table of Contents

2001: A Spacetime Odyssey, Introduction	p. 1
Foundations and Classical General Relativity
A Brief History of Space-Time	p. 15
Gravitation and Nonlocality	p. 35
The Equivalence Principle: From Origins to Its Future Uses	p. 47
Space-Time, General Covariance, Dirac-Bergmann Observables and Non-Inertial Frames	p. 65
Physics in the Presence of a Time Machine	p. 89
Frame-Dragging and Gravitomagnetism: Theory and Experiment	p. 99
New Tests of the Strong Equivalence Principle and of the Inverse Square Law	p. 141
High Precision Gravity Measurements by Atom Interferometry	p. 147
Cosmology
Comments on Cosmology 2001	p. 159
The Inflationary Universe	p. 189
Imaging the Early Universe with the BOOMERANG Experiment	p. 209
Gravitational Waves
The Early Universe Odyssey with Gravitational Waves	p. 223
Gravitational Radiation: A Tool for Testing General Relativity	p. 247
What Gravitational Signals Say about the Structure and the Evolution of Astrophysical Sources	p. 261
Resonant-Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors at the Beginning of the New Millennium	p. 283
The Virgo Project	p. 291
Astrophysics
Computational Relativity: Collisons of Black Holes	p. 311
Instabilities of Relativistic Stars	p. 325
What Can We Learn about Neutron Stars from Gravity-Wave Observations?	p. 367
Gamma Ray Bursts: Some Facts and Ideas	p. 381
On the Accuracy of the Post-Newtonian Approximation	p. 411
Quantum Gravity
Spin Foams as Feynman Diagrams	p. 431
Open-String Models with Broken Supersymmetry	p. 449
Physics with Large Extra Dimensions	p. 463
Polyakov Conjecture and 2 + 1 Dimensional Gravity	p. 483
Field Theories on Canonical and Lie-Algebra Noncommutative Spacetimes	p. 497
A String Theorist's View of Quantum Gravity
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