Testing Einstein’s Equivalence Principle With Fast Radio Bursts
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Testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle With Fast Radio Bursts.
The accuracy of Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) can be tested with the observed time delays between correlated particles or photons that are emitted from astronomical sources. Assuming as a lower limit that the time delays are caused mainly by the gravitational potential of the Milky Way, we prove that fast radio bursts (FRBs) of cosmological origin can be used to constrain the EEP with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.261101