GRAVITATION AND EXPERIMENT. POINCARE SEMINAR 2006

摘要

The Poincare Seminar is held at the Institute Henri Poincare in Paris twice a year. This volume contains lectures presented at the Poincare Seminar focused on Gravitation and Experiment which took place in October 2006.rnThe editors made particular effort to present the chosen topics in a pedagogical form accessible to mathematicians and physicists not only at the professional level but also at graduate student level. The first contribution by T. Damour is an excellent introductory overview "General Relativity Today" explaining basic principles, properties and results of general relativity, including applications in other fields of research (e.g. astronomy), commercial applications (GPS) and various contemporary and future experiments designed to further test the validity of this theory. The last section of this contribution focuses on possible extensions of general relativity, such as supergravity and string theory.