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  • Maxime J. JacquetEmail author
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Waves in media can be made to propagate on an effectively curved spacetime. Such analogue spacetimes are curved Lorentzian manifolds which enable the study of some features of gravity in the laboratory. In this introductory chapter, we present the fundamental arguments supporting the science of analogue gravity, whose necessity we motivate by the idea to observe and better understand the Hawking effect in such systems.

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  1. 1.Faculty of PhysicsUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria

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