"... Newton’s revelations about gravity were motivated by the availability of quantitative observational data of the . His theory seemed to be a complete and well-proven concept and it held for centuries. It was not until the last century that Einstein derived gravitation from the underlying spacetime concept. Einstein’s work was not provoked by observational facts, but was motivated on a purely theoretical basis, which makes his formalism and prediction particularly elegant. General Relativity presented a big change in concept beyond Newton and it predicted specific phenomena. These effects have been verified experimentally and to this date are being tested to higher and higher accuracy. The classical tests were: and . Einstein’s General Relativity corrections are now being used on an everyday basis. A typical example is the , where General Relativity effects yield a combined effect of 38 per day. The accuracy to which General Relativity can be confirmed is entirely limited by experimental uncertainties and none of the uncertainty originates from the theoretical description, since General Relativity has no adjustable parameters. It seems that to date, gravity is exactly described by General Relativity."
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Jens H. Gundlach
(born 1961) is a German physicist, who has spent most of his career working in the United States and is now a full professor at the in Seattle. He is known for his research on experimental gravitational physics and in the biophysics of technology. Gundlach received in 2001 the of the (APS), in 2009 was elected a Fellow of the APS, and in 2021 received, jointly with and , the .
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