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The Brans-Dicke Theory and Its Experimental Tests

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Carl Brans submitted his doctoral dissertation to the Princeton committee in May of 1961. By November, the Brans-Dicke theory was disseminated widely with the publication of a 10-page paper in Physical Review. An extension of Einstein’s general relativity, it generated great interest and was the subject of enormous effort to test its implications experimentally. We examine the history and impact of the experimental tests of this theory.

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McHugh, M.P. (2016). The Brans-Dicke Theory and Its Experimental Tests. In: Asselmeyer-Maluga, T. (eds) At the Frontier of Spacetime. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31299-6_9

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