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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 1

2020 January - 19 articles

Cover Story: One hundred years ago, two British expeditions measured the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravitational field, confirming the prediction made by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Today, many physicists around the world are involved in studying the consequences of this confirmation and using the deflection of light by gravitational fields as a research tool, a discipline with the generic name of gravitational lensing. This current Issue contains a historical review to commemorate the centenary of those eclipse expeditions and gives an account of the development and milestones of gravitational lensing. This Issue's cover picture shows a simple diagram of the apparent shift of a star´s position during an eclipse, while the background image shows an Einstein ring, one of the many beautiful and dramatic gravitational lensing effects.View this paper.
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Articles (19)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,730 Views
3 Pages

Post-Editorial of “The Multiverse” Special Volume

  • Ana Alonso-Serrano,
  • Mariusz P. Da̧browski and
  • Thomas Naumann

20 January 2020

A succesful series of papers devoted to various aspects of an idea of the Multiverse have been gathered together and presented to the readers. In this post-editorial we briefly challenge the content referring to the main issues dealt with by the Auth...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,790 Views
8 Pages

20 January 2020

This editorial introduces the Special Issue “Progress in Group Field Theory and Related Quantum Gravity Formalisms” which includes a number of research and review articles covering results in the group field theory (GFT) formalism for qua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,817 Views
12 Pages

18 January 2020

In a recent article, we noticed that the electron density in condensed matter exhibits large spikes close to the atomic nuclei. We showed that the peak magnitude of these spikes in the electron densities, 3–4 orders larger than the average elec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,135 Views
89 Pages

In the Quest for Cosmic Rotation

  • Vladimir A. Korotky,
  • Eduard Masár and
  • Yuri N. Obukhov

15 January 2020

This paper analyzes the problem of global rotation in general relativity (GR) theory. Simple cosmological models with rotation and expansion are presented, which give a natural explanation of the modern values of the acceleration parameter at differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,377 Views
22 Pages

15 January 2020

Neutron stars are compact objects rotating at high speed, up to a substantial fraction of the speed of light (up to 20% for millisecond pulsars) and possessing ultra-strong electromagnetic fields (close to and sometimes above the quantum critical fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,796 Views
17 Pages

Gravity and Nonlinear Symmetry Realization

  • Andrej Arbuzov and
  • Boris Latosh

10 January 2020

Application of nonlinear symmetry realization technique to gravity is studied. We identify the simplest extensions of the Poincare group suitable for nonlinear realization at the level of physical fields. Two simple models are proposed. The first one...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,795 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2020

This is a review of the production of heavy quark states via relativistic heavy ion collisions in RHIC. The heavy quarks here are c, charm quark, and b, bottom quark. The states are charmonium meson states Ψ ( n S ) , with n = 1,2 and upsi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,934 Views
9 Pages

Curvature Invariants for Lorentzian Traversable Wormholes

  • Brandon Mattingly,
  • Abinash Kar,
  • William Julius,
  • Matthew Gorban,
  • Cooper Watson,
  • MD Ali,
  • Andrew Baas,
  • Caleb Elmore,
  • Bahram Shakerin and
  • Gerald Cleaver
  • + 1 author

9 January 2020

The curvature invariants of three Lorentzian wormholes are calculated and plotted in this paper. The plots may be inspected for discontinuities to analyze the traversability of a wormhole. This approach was formulated by Henry, Overduin, and Wilcomb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,279 Views
13 Pages

3 January 2020

Infrasound and seismic waves are supposed to be the main contributors to the gravity-gradient noise (Newtonian noise) of the third-generation subterranean gravitational wave detectors. This noise will limit the sensitivity of the instrument at freque...

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