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Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations

<!--HTML--><p>General Relativity (GR) is immensely successful. With the late discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers, it has passed all the &nbsp;tests with flying colors. But so far, all observations have mainly tested the vacuum equations of GR. Th...

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Autor principal: Durrer Zimmermann, Ruth
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2855810
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description <!--HTML--><p>General Relativity (GR) is immensely successful. With the late discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers, it has passed all the &nbsp;tests with flying colors. But so far, all observations have mainly tested the vacuum equations of GR. The most important non-vacuum case, cosmology, is in agreement with GR only after the introduction of two otherwise unknown components, 'Dark Matter' and 'Dark Energy' &nbsp;which amount to about 96% of the total energy budget of the present Universe. This led people in the field to question the validity of GR for cosmology. Might it be that GR is flawed on large, cosmological scales? Or in the presence of matter in general?<br>But how can we test Einstein's equation in the presence of matter? Can't we simply move any modification of the Einstein tensor to the right hand side and call it a 'dark matter/darkenergy' component?<br>In my talk I shall discuss possible ways (partially) out of this dilemma. How to test both, the left and the right hand side of Einstein's equations with cosmological observations.</p>
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spelling cern-28558102023-04-11T21:39:36Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2855810engDurrer Zimmermann, RuthTesting General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observationsTesting General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observationsTheory Colloquia<!--HTML--><p>General Relativity (GR) is immensely successful. With the late discovery of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers, it has passed all the &nbsp;tests with flying colors. But so far, all observations have mainly tested the vacuum equations of GR. The most important non-vacuum case, cosmology, is in agreement with GR only after the introduction of two otherwise unknown components, 'Dark Matter' and 'Dark Energy' &nbsp;which amount to about 96% of the total energy budget of the present Universe. This led people in the field to question the validity of GR for cosmology. Might it be that GR is flawed on large, cosmological scales? Or in the presence of matter in general?<br>But how can we test Einstein's equation in the presence of matter? Can't we simply move any modification of the Einstein tensor to the right hand side and call it a 'dark matter/darkenergy' component?<br>In my talk I shall discuss possible ways (partially) out of this dilemma. How to test both, the left and the right hand side of Einstein's equations with cosmological observations.</p>oai:cds.cern.ch:28558102023
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Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title_full Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title_fullStr Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title_full_unstemmed Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title_short Testing General Relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
title_sort testing general relativity with cosmological large scale structure observations
topic Theory Colloquia
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/2855810
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