Essay Abstract
It is well known that Einstein's General Relativity (GR) achieved a great success and overcame lots of experimental tests. On the other hand, GR also showed some shortcomings and flaws which today advise theorists to ask if it is the definitive theory of gravity. In this essay we show that, if advanced projects on the detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) will improve their sensitivity, allowing to perform a GWs astronomy, understanding if Einstein's GR is the correct and definitive theory of gravity will be Ultimately Possible in Physics. For this goal, accurate angular and frequency dependent response functions of interferometers for GWs arising from various Theories of Gravity, i.e. GR and Extended Theories of Gravity will have to be used. The papers which found this essay have been the world's most cited in the official Astroparticle Publication Review of ASPERA during the 2007 with 13 citations. This essay is an improved and more detailed version of the one which recently won an Honorable Mention at the the 2009 Gravity Research Foundation Awards
Author Bio
Christian Corda received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Pisa University, Pisa, Italy during the period from 2003 to 2007. During 2007, he became the world's most cited author in the Official Astroparticle Publication Review of ASPERA, with 13 citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of "The Open Astronomy Journal" of Bentham Science Publishers and an Editor of "The International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences" of Hindawi Publishing Corporation. In addition, Corda is the Scientific Director of the Associazione Scientifica Galileo Galilei, Prato, Italy.