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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 1: Invited Talks 1

GR 1.1: Invited Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 09:30–10:10, H 2013

Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment — •Clifford Will — University of Florida, Gainesville FL USA

A century after Einstein's formulation of general relativity, a remarkable diversity of precision experiments have established it as the ``standard model" for gravitational physics. Yet it might not be the final word. We review the array of measurements that have verified general relativity in the laboratory, in the solar system and in binary pulsars. We then describe some of the opportunities and challenges involved in testing Einstein's great theory in strong-field, dynamical regimes and in cosmology.