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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
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If not GR, what?
Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland
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Abstract:
Well-behaved, natural alternatives to which General Relativity
can be compared are few and far between. After a few remarks
about the spectrum of possibilities, I will focus on GR augmented
by a dynamical unit timelike vector field, a.k.a. "Einstein-aether
theory". The current observational constraints on the theory from
both weak and strong field phenomena will be summarized, and
some important outstanding questions about the predictions of
the theory will be highlighted.
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