Reinventing gravity
a physicist goes beyond Einstein
Moffat, John W.
creator
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nyu
New York
Smithsonian Books/Collins
c2008
2008
1st ed.
monographic
eng
xiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
John W. Moffat.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-259) and index.
Quantum gravity
Astrophysics
General relativity (Physics)
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