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As we have now reached the end of our journey, let me emphasise that it was far from being comprehensive. There would be so much more to say about the general-relativistic world, and more formally about the theory of relativity itself. I wish that we could have covered the key experimental tests of relativity on Earth and in the Solar system, such as the Pound and Rebka experiment, the relativistic precession of Mercury’s perihelion, or the Shapiro time delay of light propagation. I wish that we could have explored gravito-magnetic phenomena, such as the precession of gyroscope in the gravity field of the Earth, or the spinning Kerr black holes.
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In the scientific literature, this issue is better known as the ‘cosmological-constant problem’. I do not particularly cherish this denomination, because it tends to generate confusion with the dark energy issue in cosmology. These are distinct questions.
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Fleury, P. (2019). Conclusion. In: Gravitation. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32001-0_5
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