Plane Gravitational Waves in General Relativity

1957/05/01 by Hermann Bondi, H. BONDI · 145 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #General relativity #Geometry #Gravitational redshift #Gravitational singularity #Gravitational wave #Mathematics #Optics #Physics #Plane (geometry) #Plane wave #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Speed of gravity

paper · doi:10.1038/1791072a0

published in Nature 179(4569), 1072-1073 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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