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Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) states that any freely falling, uncharged test particle follows the same identical trajectory independent of its internal structure and composition. Since the polarization of a photon is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-05 Xue-Feng Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Mi-Xiang Lan , He Gao , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

Current constraints on Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) utilize the observed time delay between correlated particles of astronomical sources. However, the intrinsic time delay due to particle emission time is impossible to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 H. Yu , F. Y. Wang

A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Xi-Long Fan , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

The weak equivalence principle (WEP) is the cornerstone of gravitational theories. At the local scale, WEP has been tested to high accuracy by various experiments. On the intergalactic distance scale, WEP could be tested by comparing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-26 Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang

Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) can be tested by the time delay between photons with different energies passing through a gravitational field. As one of the most energetic explosions in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), the universality of free fall, is a fundamental component of general relativity and other metric theories of gravity. Its validity can be tested through the post-Newtonian parameter gamma, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Tian-Cong Wang , Aleksandra Piorkowska - Kurpas , Marek Biesiada , He Gao

Weak equivalence principle (WEP) is one of the cornerstones of the modern theories of gravity, stating that the trajectory of a freely falling test body is independent of its internal structure and composition. Even though WEP is known to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-30 Tigran Kalaydzhyan

Comparing the parameterized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ values for different types of particles, or the same type of particles with different energies is an important method to test the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). Assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-12 Zhi-Xing Luo , Bo Zhang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Weak Equivalent Principle (WEP) can be tested through the parameterized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$, representing the space curvature produced by unit rest mass. The parameter $\gamma$ in turn has been constrained by comparing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Yueyang Zhang , Biping Gong

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be probed with astrophysical sources emitting simultaneously different types of neutral particles, or particles with varying energies, by testing their time of flight through the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

Cosmic transients, such as gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts, have been used to constrain the Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) through the parametrized-post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. In this approach, the time delay of photons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-12 Orfeu Bertolami , Ricardo G. Landim

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) has a central role in the understanding of gravity and space-time. In its weak form, or Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), it directly implies equivalence between inertial and gravitational mass.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 G. Rosi , G. D'Amico , L. Cacciapuoti , F. Sorrentino , M. Prevedelli , M. Zych , C. Brukner , G. M. Tino

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) carries a pivotal role in understanding theory of gravity and spacetime. It guarantees the gravity to be understood as geometric phenomenon. Considering gravitational coupling of matter in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 ChengGang Qin , YuJie Tan , ChengGang Shao

The Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), stating that two bodies of different compositions and/or mass fall at the same rate in a gravitational field (universality of free fall), is at the very foundation of General Relativity. The MICROSCOPE…

Weak equivalence principle (WEP) is, for the first time, tested by astrometry on quasars in the sky measured in two wavelengths. Compared to previous WEP tests based on the Shapiro time delay of massless particles, this one has profound…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Yi Xie

An interesting test of Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) relies on the observed lag in arrival times of photons emitted from extragalactic transient sources. Attributing the lag between photons of different energies to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Adi Nusser

On August 17, 2017 the LIGO interferometers detected the gravitational wave (GW) signal (GW170817) from the coalescence of binary neutron stars. This signal was also simultaneously seen throughout the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-15 Sibel Boran , Shantanu Desai , Emre Kahya , Richard Woodard

The Einstein's equivalence principle can be tested by using parameterized post-Newtonian parameters, of which the parameter $\gamma$ has been constrained by comparing the arrival times of photons with different energies. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Chao Yang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yue-Yang Zhang , Bin Liao , Wei-Hua Lei

Tests of the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) probe the foundations of physics. Ever since Galileo in the early 1600s, WEP tests have attracted some of the best experimentalists of any time. Progress has come in bursts, each stimulated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Anna M. Nobili , Alberto Anselmi

We provide a quantum derivation of Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) of general relativity using a new quantum gravity theory proposed by the authors called Electro-Magnetic Quantum Gravity or EMQG (ref. 1). Newtonian Inertia is a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Ostoma , Mike Trushyk
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