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On cosmology in the laboratory

In transformation optics, ideas from general relativity have been put to practical use for engineering problems. This article asks the question how this debt can be repaid. In discussing a series of recent laboratory experiments, it shows how insights from wave phenomena shed light on the quantum ph...

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Autor principal: Leonhardt, Ulf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0354
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spelling pubmed-45288322015-08-28 On cosmology in the laboratory Leonhardt, Ulf Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci Articles In transformation optics, ideas from general relativity have been put to practical use for engineering problems. This article asks the question how this debt can be repaid. In discussing a series of recent laboratory experiments, it shows how insights from wave phenomena shed light on the quantum physics of the event horizon. The Royal Society Publishing 2015-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4528832/ /pubmed/26217062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0354 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528832/
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