Mass and Motion in General Relativity

From the infinitesimal scale of particle physics to the cosmic scale of the universe, research is concerned with the nature of mass. While there have been spectacular advances in physics during the past century, mass still remains a mysterious entity at t

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Luc Blanchet Alessandro Spallicci Bernard Whiting Editors

Mass and Motion in General Relativity

Fundamental Theories of Physics Volume 162

Series Editors Philippe Blanchard, Universit¨at Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Paul Busch, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom Bob Coecke, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom Detlef Duerr, Mathematisches Institut, M¨unchen, Germany Roman Frigg, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom Christopher A. Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Giancarlo Ghirardi, Universit`a di Trieste, Trieste, Italy Domenico Giulini, Leibnitz Universit¨at Hannover, Hannover, Germany Gregg Jaeger, Boston University CGS, Boston, USA Claus Kiefer, Universit¨at K¨oln, K¨oln, Germany Klaas Landsman, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Christian Maes, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Hermann Nicolai, Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur Gravitationsphysik, Golm, Germany Vesselin Petkov, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Alwyn van der Merwe, University of Denver, Denver, USA Rainer Verch, Universit¨at Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Reinhard Werner, Leibnitz Universit¨at Hannover, Hannover, Germany Christian W¨uthrich, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

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Mass and Motion in General Relativity

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Editors Luc Blanchet Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris 98 bis Boulevard Arago 75014 Paris France [email protected] Alessandro Spallicci Universit´e d’Orl´eans Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers en r´egion Centre LPC2E-CNRS, 3A Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orl´eans France [email protected] Bernard Whiting University of Florida Department of Physics P.O. Box 118440, Gainesville FL 32611-8440, U.S.A. [email protected]fl.edu

ISBN 978-90-481-3014-6 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3015-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3015-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938712 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011  No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: Spi Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Mass and Motion in General Relativity

From the infinitesimal scale of particle physics to the cosmic scale of the universe, research is concerned with the nature of mass. While there have been spectacular advances in physics during the past century, mass still remains a mysterious entity at the forefront of current research. Particle accelerators in the quest for the Higgs bo