TY - BOOK ID - 77941177 TI - Nonlinear gravitodynamics AU - Ruffini, Remo AU - Sigismondi, Costantino PY - 2003 SN - 1281876925 9786611876920 9812564810 9812383476 9789812383471 9789812564818 9781281876928 6611876928 PB - New Jersey London World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Perturbation (Astronomy) KW - Gravity KW - Geophysics KW - Mechanics KW - Pendulum KW - Celestial mechanics KW - Perturbation (Mathematics) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77941177 AB - This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics. Starting from a profound intuition of Lense and Thirringin 1918, based on a simple solution to the linearized Einstein field equations, this has emerged in the past four decades as a phenomenon of extraordinary importance in cosmology, radio jets in quasars, and the physics of neutron stars and black holes, besides leading to some of the most sophisticated experiments ever performed in the space surrounding our planet. ER -