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Covariant generalizations of well-known wave equations predict the existence of inertial-gravitational effects for a variety of quantum systems that range from Bose-Einstein condensates to particles in accelerators. Additional effects arise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Papini

This work is divided into two parts. The first examines recent proposals for "witnessing" quantum gravity via entanglement from the point of view of Bronstein's original objection to a quantization of gravity. Using techniques from open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Giorgio Torrieri

A new approach to Quantum Gravity is proposed that is manifestly compatible with Cellular Automata (CA) theory, and is based on a new quantum theory of inertia where Newtonian Inertia results from the electromagnetic forces between the…

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

We consider possible tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle for physical systems in which quantum-mechanical vacuum energies cannot be neglected. Specific tests include a search for the manifestation of non-metric effects in Lamb-shift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Alvarez , R. B. Mann

Between 1905 and 1907, Einstein first tried to extend the special theory of relativity in such a way so as to explain gravitational phenomena. This was the most natural and simplest path to be taken. These investigations did not fit in with…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Galina Weinstein

It has been tested precisely that the inertial and gravitational masses are equal. Here we reveal that the inertial and gravitational momenta may differ. More generally, the inertial and gravitational energy-momentum tensors may not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 Xiang-Song Chen

We first investigate the form the General Relativity Theory would have taken had the gravitational mass and the inertial mass of material objects been different. We then extend this analysis to electromagnetism and postulate an equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-09 Murat Özer

The existence of gravitational radiation is a natural prediction of any relativistic description of the gravitational interaction. In this chapter, we focus on gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Alexandre Le Tiec , Jérôme Novak

A simple mapping procedure is presented by which classical orbits and path integrals for the motion of a point particle in flat space can be transformed directly into those in curved space with torsion. Our procedure evolved from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 H. Kleinert

It is shown that screening the background of super-strong interacting gravitons ensures the Newtonian attraction, if a part of single gravitons is pairing and graviton pairs are destructed by collisions with a body. If the considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael A. Ivanov

The role of the Equivalence Principle (EP) in classical and quantum mechanics is reviewed. It is shown that the weak EP has a counterpart in quantum theory, a Quantum Equivalence Principle (QEP). This implies that also in the quantum domain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Claus Lämmerzahl

We survey the role of stable clocks in general relativity. Clock comparisons have provided important tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle, which underlies metric gravity. These include tests of the isotropy of clock comparisons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Clifford M. Will

The coupling between internal degrees of freedom of quantum systems and their overall motion in an external gravitational field plays a central role in multiple extensions of Einstein's equivalence principle to quantum physics. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Thomas B. Mieling

Assuming the validity of the equivalence principle in the quantum regime, we argue that one of the assumptions of the usual definition of quantum mechanics, namely separation between the ``classical'' detector and the ``quantum'' system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Giorgio Torrieri

On the basis of the relativistic mass-energy concept we found that a proper mass of a test particle in a gravitational field depends on a potential energy, hence, a freely falling particle has a varying proper mass. Consequently, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoli Vankov

We provide a derivation of the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) based on our Quantum Field Theory (QFT) of the masseon and graviton particles called ElectroMagnetic Quantum Gravity (EMQG, ref. 1). EMQG provides a framework for…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Ostoma , M. Trushyk

We show that in contrast to a recent claim, the Quantum Galileo Interferometer is sensitive to a uniform gravitational field in the presence and even in the absence of the levitation condition.

We review recent theoretical results, demonstrating breakdown of the equivalence between active and passive gravitational masses and energy due to quantum effects in General Relativity. In particular, we discuss the simplest composite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Andrei G. Lebed

Guided by the Einstein equivalence principle that identifies the phenomenon of gravitation as a manifestation of the dynamics of spacetime in contrast to a localizable force, we review and explore its consequences on formulating a theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Jann Zosso

The constancy of the speed of light (the maximum velocity of interaction) is the second postulate of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. Currently, there is no correct theoretical proof of this constancy in all inertial frames…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 D. N. Makarov