Barceló Carlos, Liberati Stefano, Visser Matt
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Camino Bajo de Huetor 50, 18008 Granada, Spain.
International School for Advanced Studies and INFN, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
Living Rev Relativ. 2005;8(1):12. doi: 10.12942/lrr-2005-12. Epub 2005 Dec 16.
Analogue models of (and for) gravity have a long and distinguished history dating back to the earliest years of general relativity. In this review article we will discuss the history, aims, results, and future prospects for the various analogue models. We start the discussion by presenting a particularly simple example of an analogue model, before exploring the rich history and complex tapestry of models discussed in the literature. The last decade in particular has seen a remarkable and sustained development of analogue gravity ideas, leading to some hundreds of published articles, a workshop, two books, and this review article. Future prospects for the analogue gravity programme also look promising, both on the experimental front (where technology is rapidly advancing) and on the theoretical front (where variants of analogue models can be used as a springboard for radical attacks on the problem of quantum gravity).
引力的类比模型有着悠久而卓越的历史，可以追溯到广义相对论的最初几年。在这篇综述文章中，我们将讨论各种类比模型的历史、目标、结果和未来前景。我们先通过给出一个特别简单的类比模型例子来展开讨论，然后再探究文献中所讨论模型丰富的历史和复杂的脉络。特别是在过去十年里，类比引力思想有了显著且持续的发展，催生出了数百篇已发表的文章、一场研讨会、两本书以及这篇综述文章。类比引力计划的未来前景在实验方面（技术正在迅速发展）和理论方面（类比模型的变体可作为对量子引力问题进行激进攻击的跳板）看起来都很有希望。
