100 Years of General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-09-08 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
This is Chapter 1 in the book General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective, Edited by Abhay Ashtekar (Editor in Chief), Beverly Berger, James Isenberg, Malcolm MacCallum. Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June, 2015). It gives a survey of themes that have been developed during the 100 years of progress in general relativity theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.01772,
title = {100 Years of General Relativity},
author = {George F. R. Ellis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01772},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
36 pages, 4 figures. This version corrects incorrect remarks made regarding the use of the post-Newtonian approximation in Section 6.4 of the printed version