Research on general relativity

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i am a master's student and want to work on general relativity! does anybody have information on the most recent fields of research in general relativity!
 
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A master's student in physics? At what uni? Did you ask your professors? Did you look for past PF threads discussing similar questions? (In the most recent, several of us mentioned Matt Visser as a leading researcher who is deeply involved in several of the most intriguing areas of research in gravitation physics.)

An excellent reference for advanced students is http://relativity.livingreviews.org/, a website which offers many authoritative and generally excellent review papers.
 
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You might also wish to browse http://arxiv.org/archive/gr-qc
...but you'll have to sort them into "fields of research", as well as into levels of quality and usefulness.
 
Well, maybe not browse, but keeping an eye on this section over the next year would be a good idea. After a while you will probably begin to associate some names with eprints you consider to be particularly interesting.
 
thanks a lot Chris! the comments was very helpful!
 

Thread 'I don't see how a black hole's event horizon can be crossed'

OK, so this has bugged me for a while about the equivalence principle and the black hole information paradox. If black holes "evaporate" via Hawking radiation, then they cannot exist forever. So, from my external perspective, watching the person fall in, they slow down, freeze, and redshift to "nothing," but never cross the event horizon. Does the equivalence principle say my perspective is valid? If it does, is it possible that that person really never crossed the event horizon? The...
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Thread 'Question about Parallel Transport'

In this video I can see a person walking around lines of curvature on a sphere with an arrow strapped to his waist. His task is to keep the arrow pointed in the same direction How does he do this ? Does he use a reference point like the stars? (that only move very slowly) If that is how he keeps the arrow pointing in the same direction, is that equivalent to saying that he orients the arrow wrt the 3d space that the sphere is embedded in? So ,although one refers to intrinsic curvature...
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Thread 'Synchronizing clocks in an inertial frame if light is anisotropic'

ASSUMPTIONS 1. Two identical clocks A and B in the same inertial frame are stationary relative to each other a fixed distance L apart. Time passes at the same rate for both. 2. Both clocks are able to send/receive light signals and to write/read the send/receive times into signals. 3. The speed of light is anisotropic. METHOD 1. At time t[A1] and time t[B1], clock A sends a light signal to clock B. The clock B time is unknown to A. 2. Clock B receives the signal from A at time t[B2] and...
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