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Contents: * Community news: Einstein prize update, by Clifford Will World year of physics, by Richard H. Price We hear that... by Jorge Pullin * Research briefs: R-mode epitaph? by John Friedman and Nils Andersson Gravitational waves from…
We shall here propose a class of relativistic theories of gravitation, based on a foundational paper of Ehlers Pirani and Schild (EPS).All "extended theories of gravitation" (also known as f(R) theories) in Palatini formalism are shown to…
The purpose of these lectures is to discuss in some detail a new, non-perturbative approach to quantum gravity. I would like to present the basic ideas, outline the key results that have been obtained so far and indicate where we are headed…
On the basis of an exact vacuum solution of Einstein's equations, {\it vis}. the pencil-of-light field, we study the light-like motion of test and non-test objects. We also consider the quantum theoretical interaction of massless scalar…
Preliminary version No.~2 of the lecture notes for the talk ``Quantum theory of gravitational collapse'' given at the 271. WE-Heraeus-Seminar ``Aspects of Quantum Gravity'' at Bad Honnef, 25 February--1 March 2002
This is a pedagogical introduction to original Kaluza-Klein theory and its salient features. Most of the technical calculations are given in detail and the nature of gravitons is discussed.
This is a report of a course on modern physics designed and taught to undergraduate science and engineering students in the Spring of 2013. The course, meant for freshmen, attempts to integrate statistical mechanics into non-classical…
We review the literature on the Pauli equation and its current density, discussing the progression from the original phenomenological version of Pauli to its derivation by $\text{L\'{e}vy-Leblond}$ from a linearization of the…
Some relations of the quantum potential to Weyl geometry are indicated with applications to the Friedmann equations for a toy quantum cosmology. Osmotic velocity and pressure are briefly discussed in terms of quantum mechanics and…
Physics has a bad press: it is seen by a majority of people as a boring discipline ever since their High School days. There is no glamour to it, just toil and pain, and for many who engaged in it, the end sight is often unemployment. Could…
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (PC 2016). The workshop was held on the 14th of July 2016 in Manchester, UK, as a satellite workshop to UCNC 2016, the 15th International…
These notes contain a survey of some aspects of the theory of graded differential algebras and of noncommutative differential calculi as well as of some applications connected with physics. They also give a description of several new…
The confrontation between general relativity (and its theoretically most plausible deviations) and experimental or observational results is summarized. Some discussion is devoted to the various methodologies used in confronting theory and…
This fun polemical piece was written several months ago on a tip that the \emph{Chronicle of Higher Education} might be interested in publishing something like it. Sadly (both for me and, I think, for the \emph{Chronicle}'s readership) the…
Gravity is specifically the attractive force between two masses separated at a distance. Is this force a derived or a fundamental interaction? We believe that all fundamental interactions are quantum in nature but a derived interaction may…
After an overview of the physical motivations for studying quantum gravity, we reprint THE FORMAL STRUCTURE OF QUANTUM GRAVITY, i.e. the 1978 Cargese Lectures by Professor B.S. DeWitt, with kind permission of Springer. The reader is…
We discuss the fundamental principles underlying the current physical theories and the prospects of further improving their knowledge through experiments in space.
Some notes about quantum physics, an interpretation if one wishes, are put forward, insisting on `closely following the mathematics/formalism, the `nuts and bolts of what quantum physics says'. These, basically well-known, issues seem to…
In the Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, " 'I' is not the name of a person, nor 'here' of a place, .... But they are connected with names. ... [And] it is characteristic of physics not to use these words." This…
The textbook contains the problems in mechanics and special relativity for physics departments of universities. Many original problems were proposed by active scientists from the institutes of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of…