A bold revision of one of the most successful theories of all time: Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Physicists have long known that something is wrong with gravity. Einstein’s relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics are fundamentally incompatible, which has prompted the last 30 years of work in string theory and quantum gravity. However, John Moffat has identified a bigger problem: not only does Einstein’s theory not work in the world of the very small; it does not seem to work in the world of the very large either. Moffat has developed a modified theory of gravity, or MOG, that can explain the behaviour of our universe as well as Einstein’s, without resorting to dubious, yet long-claimed excuse for the existence of invisible "dark matter."
As John Barrow of the University of Cambridge asserts, the simplicity of Moffat’s model demands that physicists take this daring new theory seriously. Now, for the first time, Reinventing Gravity introduces general readers to Moffat’s groundbreaking new ideas about the universe.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-259) and index
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 10
- Introduction: A NEW GRAVITY THEORY 12
- Prologue: THE ELUSIVE PLANET VULCAN, A PARABLE 20
- PART 1: DISCOVERING AND REINVENTING GRAVITY 26
- 1: THE GREEKS TO NEWTON 28
- 2: EINSTEIN 44
- PART 2: THE STANDARD MODEL OF GRAVITY 68
- 3: THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN COSMOLOGY 70
- 4: DARK MATTER 88
- 5: CONVENTIONAL BLACK HOLES 97
- PART 3: UPDATING THE STANDARD MODEL 108
- 6: INFLATION AND VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT (VSL) 110
- 7: NEW COSMOLOGICAL DATA 129
- PART 4: SEARCHING FOR A NEW GRAVITY THEORY 144
- 8: STRINGS AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 146
- 9: OTHER ALTERNATIVE GRAVITY THEORIES 162
- 10: MODIFIED GRAVITY (MOG) 172
- PART 5: ENVISIONING AND TESTING THE MOG UNIVERSE 190
- 11: THE PIONEER ANOMALY 192
- 12: MOG AS A PREDICTIVE THEORY 200
- 13: COSMOLOGY WITHOUT DARK MATTER 212
- 14: DO BLACK HOLES EXIST IN NATURE? 219
- 15: DARK ENERGY AND THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE 224
- 16: THE ETERNAL UNIVERSE 231
- Epilogue 240
- Notes 244
- Glossary 265
- A 265
- B 265
- S 266
- D 267
- E 267
- F 268
- G 268
- H 269
- I 269
- K 270
- L 270
- M 270
- N 271
- P 271
- Q 273
- R 273
- S 274
- T 275
- U 275
- V 275
- W 275
- X 275
- Bibliography 276
- Acknowledgments 279
- Index 280
- A 280
- B 281
- C 282
- D 282
- E 283
- F 284
- G 284
- H 285
- I 285
- J 285
- K 286
- L 286
- M 286
- N 287
- O 288
- P 288
- Q 289
- R 289
- S 289
- T 290
- U 291
- V 291
- W 291
- Z 291
