PHYSICS SEMINAR
Presented by the Physics Department
& Astrophysics Research Cluster
NON-GRAVITATING MATTER AND THE GRAVITATIONAL CHESHIRE CAT
Andres Zambrano
Physics Department
Bishop's University
Friday, February 12, 2010
12:30 pm
Nicolls 1
A brief introduction to General Relativity will be presented, followed by a formulation of the Einstein field equations using a variational principle. By allowing the existence of a scalar field in flat spacetime, it is shown that a non-gravitating form of matter persists due to the non-minimal coupling of the scalar field with the curvature.
