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Formation Flying, Cosmology and General Relativity: A Tribute to Far-Reaching Dreams of Mino Freund

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Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology

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Mino had a wondrously wide range of interests and projects. I would like to address three areas that will carry into the future some of Mino’s dreams, his concept of swarms of satellites flying in formation, observing the dark un-observed domain of the past universe and the testing of General Relativity involved in the fundamental inconsistency of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics—the ultimate in the connection of the macro to the micro scales of the physical universe.

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Acknowledgements

Portions of this research have been supported by NASA Headquarters via the Lunar Science Sortie Opportunities (LSSO) program, by the Planetary Science Division through the NASA Lunar Science Institute to the University of Colorado under the University of Maryland Contract, as well as support by the University of Maryland, College Park. The work of S.D.’A. and G.D.M. is supported by INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy), as part of the MoonLIGHT-2 experiment in the framework of the research activities of the Commissione Scientifica Nazionale n. 2 (CSN2).

Other portions of this research have been supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN-LNF), Frascati, Italy and the Italian Space Agency (IAS).

A portion of the research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The first author also wishes to thank Jack Schmidt for discussions and the video.

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    Douglas Currie & Bradford Behr

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    James Williams

  3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy

    Simone Dell’Agnello & Giovanni Delle Monache

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    Kris Zacny

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Currie, D., Williams, J., Dell’Agnello, S., Delle Monache, G., Behr, B., Zacny, K. (2014). Formation Flying, Cosmology and General Relativity: A Tribute to Far-Reaching Dreams of Mino Freund. In: Freund, F., Langhoff, S. (eds) Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02207-9_14

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