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Newtonian gravity is linear (weak field) limit of General Relativity
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Tests of General Relativity --
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Small deviations from Newton's laws in planetary orbits
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Energy loss in Binary Neutron Stars from Gravitational wave radiation
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Bending of light in strong gravitational fields
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New experiments will directly observe gravitational waves due to interactions with sensitive detectors on earth
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LIGO in Louisiana and Washington State(Hanford)
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VIRGO in Europe
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Can estimate that Computations of Gravitational Waves from black hole collision would take 100,000 hours on a Cray-YMP
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10 Hours on a Teraflop Machine
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Estimate that LIGO will sensitivity to detect black hole gravitational waves around the year 2005
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