Fundamental physics with LISA

Fundamental physics with LISA

LISA has the potential to make observations that probe deeply into fundamental physics. Not only will it test to exquisite precision the general relativity model for gravitational radiation, but will also test strong-field gravity and in particular the proposition that all black holes are described by the Kerr metric. More research is needed, however, on how to quantify the theoretical meaning ...

High energy physics and the very - early Universe with LISA

Gravitational wave experiments will play a key role in the investigation of the frontiers of cosmology and the structure of fundamental fields at high energies, by detecting, or setting strong upper-limits to, the primordial gravitational wave background produced in the early-Universe. Here we discuss the impact of space-borne laser interferometric detectors operating in the low-frequency windo...

Biblioranking fundamental physics

We propose measures of the impact of research that improve on existing ones such as counting of number of papers, citations and h-index. Since different papers and different fields have largely different average number of co-authors and of references we replace citations with individual citations, shared among co-authors. Next, we improve on citation counting applying the PageRank algorithm to ...

Computation and Fundamental Physics

No matter how you slice it, computers have changed our lives. When we say this, what immediately comes to mind is the way in which ubiquitous computer technology has transformed our communicating, working, playing, and (witness online dating sites) even our loving.Another interpretation of “how computers have changed our lives” is the possibility that computation itself is essential to even def...

Fundamental Theories of Physics