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Was Einstein Right?
Clifford WillWashington University, St. Louis, and
Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris
March 21, 2004 World Year of Physics Planning Conference
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The Public Einstein
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This day and age we’re living inGive cause for apprehensionWith speed and new inventionAnd things like fourth dimension
Yet we get a trifle wearyWith Mr. Einstein’s theorySo we must get down to earth at timesRelax, relieve the tension
And no matter what the progressOr what may yet be provedThe simple facts of life are suchThey cannot be removed
Einstein and Song
You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss . . . .
Herman Hupfield © 1931 Warner Bros
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The 60’s: Hippies, Vietnam, and a Revolution in Astronomy
1961Discovery of Quasars
1964 Discovery of 3oK Cosmic Background
1965 Discovery of Pulsars
1971 Discovery of X-ray binary Black Hole candidate
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Was Einstein Right?
•INTRODUCTION
•PUTTING GENERAL RELATIVITY TO THE TEST
• Light’s Departure from the Straight and Narrow
• Mercury’s Perihelion: From Trouble to Triumph
• Does Spacetime do the Twist?
• The Search for Gravity Waves
• Effect of Gravity on Time: Einstein and Daily Life
• EPILOGUE
Clifford Will, March 21, 2004, WYP conference
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Light’s Departure from the Straight and Narrow
1.75”
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The 1919 Eclipse Expedition: Principe
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Image courtesy NRAO/AUI
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Oct 3
Sept 28
Oct 8
Oct 10
Oct 15
Oct 9
time
3C273
3C279
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Gravitational Lenses: Einstein’s Gift to Astronomy
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Mercury’s Perihelion: from Trouble to Triumph
• 1687 Newtonian triumph
• 1859 Leverrier’s conundrum
• 1900 A turn-of-the century crisis
575 “percentury
Cause Rate (per century)
Venus 278 ‘’
Earth 90 ‘’Jupiter 154 ‘’
Others 10 ‘’
Total 532 ‘’
Discrepancy 43 ‘’
Modern value 42.98 + 0.04 ‘’GR Prediction 42.98 ‘’
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GRAVITY PROBE B
Goal 0.4 mas/yrExpected 0.04 mas/yrLaunch April 17, 2004
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THE SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Electro-MagneticWaves(light)
Gravita-tionalWaves
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Go bachelor#2
No direct detection
As of today, but …
Collapse or merger in our galaxy causes
change in a 1 mantenna of 1/1000
diameter of anatomic nucleus
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Hertz 1887; practical uses
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The Binary Pulsar: Gravitational Waves Exist!
Discovery: 1974Pulse period: 59 ms (16cps)Orbit period: 8 hours
Pp = 0.059029997929883 + 7 secPo = 27906.9807804 + 6 sec
•Binary systems emit gravitational waves•Gravitational waves carry energy•System loses energy, spirals inward•Orbit period decreases at a predicted rate 0.0000758 seconds/year•Observed rate 0.0000760 + 3 seconds/year
1993 NobelPrize to
Joe Taylor &Russell Hulse
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INTERFEROMETERS AROUND THE WORLD
LIGO Hanford 4&2 km
LIGO Livingston 4 km
GEO Hannover 600 m
TAMA Tokyo300 m
Virgo Cascina 3 km
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LISA: a space interferometer
for 2012
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Gravity’s Effect on Time
NASA smithsonianGravity Probe A (1976)
General Relativity:Clocks at altitude tick faster thanClocks on the groundSpecial relativity:Moving clock ticks slower than ``stationary’’ clocks
10,000 km
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General Relativity and Daily Life
The Global Positioning System (GPS)
Navigation Requirement of 15 m 50ns
Relativistic effects: 39,000 ns per day!
GR = 46,000 SR = -7,000
Relativity mustbe taken into account, for GPSto function
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Was Einstein Right?
•INTRODUCTION
•PUTTING GENERAL RELATIVITY TO THE TEST
• Light’s Departure from the Straight and Narrow
• Mercury’s Perihelion: From Trouble to Triumph
• Does Spacetime do the Twist?
• The Search for Gravity Waves
• Effect of Gravity on Time: Einstein and Daily Life
• EPILOGUE
Clifford Will, March 21, 2004, WYP conference