Remarks on gravitational sources

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Ng, YJ
vanDam, H
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10.1142/S0217732395002945
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We show that, due to quantum fluctuations of the spacetime metric, any source of observable static gravitational fields is a classical object. We also show that, at the classical level, the gravitational mass of any system of finite volume is equal to its inertial mass in general only after time averaging.
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