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We show that Einstein's gravitational field has zero energy, momentum, and stress. This conclusion follows directly from the gravitational field equations, in conjunction with the differential law of energy-momentum conservation $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Kenneth Dalton

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime generated by the acceleration of astrophysical objects. A direct consequence of general relativity, they were first directly observed in 2015 by the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-07 Salvatore Vitale

Einstein's special theory of relativity starts with assumptions about how observations conducted in relatively moving inertial frames must compare. From these assumptions, conclusions can be drawn regarding the laws of physics in any one…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Allan Walstad

It is generally argued that the combined effect of Heisenberg principle and general relativity leads to a minimum time uncertainty. Most of the analyses supporting this conclusion are based on a perturbative approach to quantization. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

For the strong gravitational wave model, an explicit transformation is obtained from a privileged coordinate system with a wave variable to a synchronous reference frame with separation of time and space variables. In a synchronous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-14 Konstantin E. Osetrin , Vladimir Y. Epp , Sergey V. Chervon

The 'hole argument'(the English translation of German 'Lochbetrachtung') was formulated by Albert Einstein in 1913 in his search for a relativistic theory of gravitation. The hole argument was deemed to be based on a trivial error of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-16 Mihaela D. Iftime

As an example of the unification of gravitation and particle physics, an exact solution of the five-dimensional field equations is studied which describes waves in the classical Einstein vacuum. While the solution is essentially 5D in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paul S. Wesson

We discuss dynamical aspects of gravitational plane waves in Einstein theory with massless scalar fields. The general analytic solution describes colliding gravitational waves with constant polarization, which interact with scalar waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Jorge G. Russo

Recently Nathan Rosen and the present author obtained the energy and momentum densities of cylindrical gravitational waves in Einstein's prescription and found them to be finite and reasonable. In the present paper we calculate the same in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. S. Virbhadra

Further arguments on the physical unreality of the gravitational waves of any kind.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loinger

Every emission of radiation in gravity also includes a nonwavelike component that leaves a permanent change in proper distances of the spacetime it travels through. This phenomenon is known as gravitational displacement memory. Building up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-21 Lavinia Heisenberg , Benedetta Rosatello , Guangzi Xu , Jann Zosso

After a historical discussion of Einstein's 1907 principle of equivalence, a homogeneous gravitational field in Minkowski spacetime is constructed. It is pointed out that the reference frames in gravitational theory can be understood as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-13 Engelbert L. Schucking , Eugene J. Surowitz

Recently LIGO and VIRGO collaborations reported about observation of gravitational-wave signal corresponding to the inspiral and merger of two black holes, resulting into formation of the final black hole. It was shown that the observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-28 Roman Konoplya , Alexander Zhidenko

The existence of large--scale magnetic fields in the universe has led to the observation that if gravitational waves propagating in a cosmological environment encounter even a small magnetic field then electromagnetic radiation is produced.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 C. Barrabes , P. A. Hogan

In this paper we shall investigate the propagation of gravitational waves in a flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker background, in the context of a string motivated corrected Einstein gravity. Particularly, we shall consider a misalignment axion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , Arkady A. Popov

We describe the properties of evanescent gravitational waves (EGWs)---wave solutions of Einstein equations which decay exponentially in some direction while propagating in another. Evanescent waves are well-known in acoustics and optics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Sebastian Golat , Eugene A. Lim , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

We briefly give a very simple picture about one of the most remarkable results of Matvej Petrovich Bronstein concerning the quantization of the gravitational waves showing also that the linearized Einstein equations of the paper: Phys.Rev.…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the physics of gravitational waves, exploring both the theoretical foundations and the most recent experimental advances. After a general introduction to the theory of general relativity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 José P. S. Lemos

Very straightforward arguments proving the physical non-existence of GW's and of BH's. They are so simple that even the members of the Wheelerian establishment will understand them.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loinger

For the celebrations of the 100 years of the observations undertaken by Eddington at the island of Principe and collaborators at Sobral during a total solar eclipse in May 29, 1919, which have confirmed Einstein's theory of general…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 José P. S. Lemos , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Vitor Cardoso