Existence of the gravitomagnetic interaction (original) (raw)

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Abstract

The point of view expressed in the literature that gravitomagnetism has not yet been observed or measured is not entirely correct. Observations of gravitational phenomena are reviewed in which the gravitomagnetic interaction—a post-Newtonian gravitational force between moving matter—has participated and which has been measured to 1 part in 1000. Gravitomagnetism is shown to be ubiquitous in gravitational phenomena and is a necessary ingredient in the equations of motion, without which the most basic gravitational dynamical effects (including Newtonian gravity) could not be consistently calculated by different inertial observers.

Publication:

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Pub Date:

November 1988

DOI:

10.1007/BF00671317

Bibcode:

1988IJTP...27.1395N

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