Gravity Wave Research

Relativistic Lighthouses: The role of Binary Pulsars in proving the Existence of Gravitational Waves

This lecture by Kennefick is about binary pulsars that emit gravitational waves. These gravitational waves have not been discovered yet by direct detection (at the time of this conference, in 2008), although binary pulsars behave as if they do emit gravitational waves. Kennefick discusses a couple of leading papers in the field of gravitational waves, …

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Unified Field Theory up to the 1960s: its development and the interaction between research groups

Goenner’s lecture on geometry and unified field theories focuses on Einstein’s approach to unify gravity with electromagnetism. Einstein hypothesized that both forces were described by one metric, that can be split into a symmetric and antisymmetric part. Studying the parallel transport of a vector leads to constraints on the metric that are important in these …

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