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A New Test of the Theory of General Relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. F. Crawford
D. F. Crawford*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
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It has been recently suggested (Crawford 1979) that there is an interaction between a photon and curved space-time that can be observed as a redshift of the photon frequency. Since the amount of the redshift is a function of the curvature it may be used to discriminate between gravitational theories. This is easily done using the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) limit fully described in the review article by Will (1972).

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , 1979 , pp. 364
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1979

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