General covariance and the isotropy of inertia

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 35 - Trang 110-116 - 2007
H. Yilmaz1
1Perception Technology Corporation, Winchester

Tóm tắt

In this paper the oft confused issues of general covariance, correspondence and inertial isotropy are re-examined. This is done in terms of a generalized theory of gravity, which contains general relativity as a special case. It is shown that, when formulated in a manifestly covariant manner, the generalized theory leads to some second-order effects which are testable by experiment.

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