General Relativity

Resources

general
- General Relativity, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Usenet Relativity FAQ
black holes
- The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology. S. W. Hawking and R. Penrose. The Proceedings of the Royal Society. vol. 314 no. 1519 (27 January 1970): 529-548. doi: 10.1098/rspa.1970.0021.
cosmology
- Cosmology, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Cosmology 101, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing, National Academies Press
- Flat as a Pancake, Mark Schrope, New Scientist
- Search for Extra Dimensions, Fermilab
- Spacetime Wrinkles, University of Illinois
- Star Trekking, New Scientist, 15 April 2000
- Value of Hubble's Constant, Nigel Bunce and Jim Hunt, University of Guelph, 14 December 1988
gravitational doppler effect and time dilation
- Gravitational Red-Shift in Nuclear Resonance. R.V. Pound and G. A. Rebka, Jr. Physical Review Letters. 3 (1959): 439–441.
- Apparent Weight of Photons. R.V. Pound and G. A. Rebka, Jr. Physical Review Letters. 4 (1960): 337.
- Effect of Gravity on Nuclear Resonance. R. V. Pound and J. L. Snider. Physical Review Letters. 13 (1964): 539.
- Performance and Results of Portable Clocks in Aircraft. J.C. Hafele. Proceedings of the Third Annual Department of Defense (DoD) Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Strategic Planning Meeting. (November 1971): 261-288. DTIC Accession Number: ADA489971.
- Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains. J.C. Hafele and Richard E. Keating. Science. Vol. 177, No. 4044, (14 July 1972): 166–168.
- Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Observed Relativistic Time Gains. J.C. Hafele and Richard E. Keating. Science. Vol. 177, No. 4044, (14 July 1972): 168–170.
- Test of Relativistic Gravitation with a Space-Borne Hydrogen Maser [Gravity Probe A]. R.F. Vessot, et al. Physical Review Letters. 45 (1980): 2081.
- Weighing Photons I, R.V. Pound, Physics in Perspective. 2 (2000): 224.
- Weighing Photons II, R.V. Pound, Physics in Perspective. 3 (2001): 4.
- Relativity in the global positioning system. Neil Ashby. Living Reviews. Relativity. (2003).
- The Weight of Light, David Lindley, Physical Review Focus, 12 July 2005.
  A good general overview of the Pound-Rebka experiment that verified Einstein's gravitational doppler efect.

A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves Holger Müller. Achim Peters, Steven Chu. Nature. Vol. 463 (18 February 2010): 926-29. doi:10.1038/nature08776.
Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES)

gravitational waves
historical
- A Brief Outline of the Development of the Theory of Relativity. Albert Einstein. Nature 106 (1921): 782–784.
- Relativity: the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, Project Gutenberg
space probes
video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
  - Kepler to Einstein, From Kepler's laws and the theory of tides, to Einstein's general theory of relativity, into black holes, and beyond.
- Physics for the 21st Century

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