The Role of Gravitation in Physics

Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 The Chapel Hill Conference in Context
Dean Rickles

2 The Authors

The Original Chapel Hill Report

Foreword
Cécile DeWitt

PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE

Session I Unquantized General Relativity Chairman: B. S. DeWitt

3 The Present Position of Classical Relativity Theory and Some of its Problems
John Wheeler

4 The Experimental Basis of Einstein's Theory
R. H. Dicke

Session II Unquantized General Relativity, Continued
Chairman: P. G. Bergmann

5 On the Integration of the Einstein Equations
André Lichnerowicz

6 Remarks on Global Solutions
C. W. Misner

7 Solving The Initial Value Problem Using Cartan Calculus
Y. Fourès

8 Some Remarks on Cosmological Models
R. W. Bass, L. Witten

Session III Unquantized General Relativity, Continued
Chairman: H. Bondi

9 Gravitational Waves
L. Marder, Presented by H. Bondi

10 Gravitational Field of an Axially Symmetric System
N. Rosen, H. Shamir, Presented by F. Pirani

11 The Dynamics of a Lattice Universe
R. W. Lindquist

Session IV Invited Reports on Cosmology Chairman: F. J. Belinfante

12 Measurable Quantities that May Enable Questions of Cosmology to be Answered
Thomas Gold

13 Radio Astronomical Measurements of Interest to Cosmology
A. E. Lilley

Session V Unquantized General Relativity, Concluded
Chairman: A. Lichnerowicz

14 Measurement of Classical Gravitation Fields
Felix Pirani

15 Correspondence in the Generalized Theory of Gravitation
Behram Kursunoglu

16 Presentation of Work by T. Taniuchi
Ryoyu Utiyama

17 Negative Mass in General Relativity
Hermann Bondi

Session VI Quantized General Relativity Chairman: J. A. Wheeler

18 The Problems of Quantizing the Gravitational Field
P. G. Bergmann

19 Conceptual Clock Models
H. Salecker

20 The Three-Field Problem
F. J. Belinfante

Session VII Quantized General Relativity, Continued Chairman: A. Schild

21 Quantum Gravidynamics
Bryce DeWitt

Session VIII Quantized General Relativity, Concluded Chairman: V. Bargmann

22 The Possibility of Gravitational Quantization

23 The Necessity of Gravitational Quantization

Closing Session Chairman: B. S. DeWitt

24 Divergences in Quantized General Relativity
S. Deser

25 Critical Comments
R. P. Feynman

26 Summary of Conference
P. G. Bergmann

27 An Expanded Version of the Remarks by R.P. Feynmanon the Reality of Gravitational Waves