Testing general relativity using a bouncing ball
In a recent article (Liang and Lan, (2011)), we showed that the trajectories predicted by general-relativistic and Newtonian mechanics from the same parameters and initial conditions for a low-speed weak-gravity bouncing ball system will rapidly disagree completely if the trajectories are chaotic. H...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Results in Physics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379714000394 |
| Summary: | In a recent article (Liang and Lan, (2011)), we showed that the trajectories predicted by general-relativistic and Newtonian mechanics from the same parameters and initial conditions for a low-speed weak-gravity bouncing ball system will rapidly disagree completely if the trajectories are chaotic. Here, we determine how accurate the parameters and initial conditions of the system must be known so that the two different calculated chaotic trajectories are sufficiently accurate for an empirical test. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-3797 |