Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

Clifford M Will 1985 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix + 342 pp price £15 (paperback) ISBN 0 521 31710 X Researchers entering the general area of gravitation and cosmology for the first time may be forgiven for believing that general relativity is the only viable theory of gravity, as so little is usually discussed in the literature concerning alternative theories. In fact, up until 1960, the experimental evidence for general relativity was meagre in the extreme.