An immediate proof of the non-existence of GW's

2004/12/25 by A. Loinger, Loinger, A.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0412164

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Abstract

In general relativity (GR) no observer is physically privileged. As a strict consequence, it can be shown that the physical generation of gravitational waves (GW's) is quite impossible.

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