Talk:Robert H. Dicke
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[edit] Confusing...
I read this, but I'm not sure what to make of it:
"He spent the remainder of his career developing a program of precision tests of general relativity using the framework of the equivalence principle. With Carl H. Brans, he developed Brans-Dicke theory, an equivalence-principle violating modification of general relativity inspired by Paul Dirac's large numbers hypothesis and Mach's principle. He made measurements of solar oblateness which were useful in understanding the perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit, one of the classical tests of general relativity."
Am I correct in thinking the second sentence is out of place? It seems to be suggesting that he developed an alternate theory that violates the equivalence-principle, but then goes on to talk about an experiment that supports mainstream GR. Was the experiment in question run in order to test the B-D theory, but instead supported classical GR? If so, this seems like something worth mentioning. If not, it seems this section needs a good edit.
Maury 01:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
