%0 Journal Article %T Einstein frame or Jordan frame ? %A Valerio Faraoni %A Edgard Gunzig %J Physics %D 1999 %I arXiv %X Scalar-tensor theories of gravity can be formulated in the Jordan or in the Einstein frame, which are conformally related. The issue of which conformal frame is physical is a contentious one; we provide a straightforward example based on gravitational waves in order to clarify the issue. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910176v1