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Reinventing gravity : a physicist goes beyond Einstein /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moffat, John W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Quantum gravity.
Astrophysics.
General relativity (Physics)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A new gravity theory
  • Prologue: The elusive planet Vulcan, a parable
  • Discovering and reinventing gravity
  • The Greeks to Newton
  • Einstein
  • The standard model of gravity
  • The beginnings of modern cosmology
  • Dark matter
  • Conventional black holes
  • Updating the standard model
  • Inflation and variable speed of light (VSL)
  • New cosmological data
  • Searching for a new gravity theory
  • Strings and quantum gravity
  • Other alternative gravity theories
  • Modified gravity (MOG)
  • Envisioning and testing the MOG universe
  • The pioneer anomaly
  • MOG as a predictive theory
  • Cosmology without dark matter
  • Do black holes exist in nature?
  • Dark energy and the accelerating universe
  • The eternal universe.