Putting General Relativity to the Test: Twentieth-Century Highlights and Twenty-First-Century Prospects

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-7708-6_4zbMath1402.83017OpenAlexW2809246427MaRDI QIDQ4557059

Clifford M. Will

Publication date: 29 November 2018

Published in: Einstein Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7708-6_4

zbMATH Keywords

Irwin ShapiroMercury's perihelion advancerelativistic retardation of radar wavesRobert Dicke

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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