Special Relativity - Introductions and Overviews

• General: modernrelativity.com site; Z. Scott's & V. Solan's Special Relativity site; Rob Salgado's site at Syracuse University; Ned Wright's tutorial; How Special Relativity Works explanation at howstuffworks.com; M. Fowler's page at the U of Virginia; Sylvain Poirier's site.
• Animations, Multimedia: Einstein Light site.
• History: University of St Andrews page.

General Relativity - Introductions and Overviews (see also the cosmology links page)

• Quick Summary: NCSA page; The Intelligent Noncosmologist's guide to Spacetime.
• Lecture Notes: Sean Carroll, University of Chicago, Lecture notes.
• General: Rob Salgado's site at Syracuse; Igor Ivanov's links; NCSA site; Jean-Luc's glossary.
• Animations, Multimedia: Einstein Light site.
• History: J. O'Connor & E.F. Robertson's page; University of St Andrews page.
• Undergraduate Course: Jose Wudka (ucr.edu) relativity and cosmology notes.

Special Topics (see also Black Holes and the Early Universe)

• Gravitational Lensing: Joanne Cohn's page; Overview article by Roger Blandford; ESO information page; Pete Newbury's page; Jodrell Bank introduction pages.
• Gravitational Waves: NCSA page; Jillian's Guide to Gravitational Waves.
• Tests of General Relativity: José Wudka's page on perihelion precession.
• Time Travel: How Time Travel Will Work from howstuffworks.com.

Albert Einstein

• S. Morgan Freedman's Albert Einstein Online site; Space.com Einstein reference pages; NASA 2005 centenary article.
• Text of "Relativity: The Special and General Theory," at Bartleby.com.

General Relativity - Experimental Tests

• Gravity Probe B: A relativity gyroscope experiment developed by NASA and Stanford University for a 2-year mission to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity; After many delays, it was launched in April 2004 (information site).
• STEP (Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle): A NASA-ESA mission that will advance the sensitivity of Equivalence Principle tests by five or six orders of magnitude. As currently conceived, should be launched in a near-polar Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 550 km, in August 2005.
• LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamic Satellite Experiment): A multinational Europe-USA program to measure, for the first time, the Earth's gravitomagnetic dipole moment.
• Other tests: PARCS, atomic clocks to be placed in orbit on the ISS by NIST.

Gravitational Wave Detectors

• LIGO (Laser Inteferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory): A ground-based interferometer with 2 sites, in Livingston, LA, and Hanford, WA.
• Other Ground-Based Interferometers: Virgo site; GEO 600 site; TAMA 300 site.
• LISA: An ESA/NASA mission, the first space-based gravitational wave observatory; three spacecraft, orbiting around the Sun as a giant equilateral triangle 5 million km on a side; A Lisa Pathfinder satellite is set for launch in 2007 and the main LISA spacecraft planned for 2014 (ESO site).
• Other Detectors: ALLEGRO site; GRAIL site; TIGA site.

Research Links

• HyperSpace: Malcolm MacCallum's original QMW site and the UBC mirror.