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Predictions of Gravity Theories

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Fundamental Questions of Practical Cosmology

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Celestial bodies and the entire universe itself offer many ways to test theories of gravitation. General relativity, the well-known basis of current cosmology, can explain a wide spectrum of phenomena from the deflection of light by the Sun to the Hubble law of redshifts within the Friedmann model. At the same time it is a non-quantum theory and still requires testing in strong gravity. As we saw, a quite different approach, the relativistic field theory, is also interesting as it aims to describe the gravitational interaction in the same way as other fundamental forces are treated in physics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It is important to note that to calculate the loss of energy (6.12) one should use an expression for the energy-momentum “pseudotensor” of the gravitational field, not defined uniquely in general relativity. This has originated a long discussion about the reality of gravitational waves and their ability to carry energy in general relativity.

  2. 2.

    In principle, there is also another small effect, related to measuring the shape of the orbit: the rotation of the orbiting body contributes to the equation of motion (Eq. (6.21)).

  3. 3.

    Already Boris Komberg (1968) proposed a binary system as a quasar model.

  4. 4.

    This argument is a precise analogue to that of the classical radius of electron R e=e 2/m e c 2, following from the requirement that the electric field energy E (fe)=e 2/2R 0 should be less than the electron’s rest-mass energy m e c 2.

  5. 5.

    Calculation of K(3, FG) was done by A. Raikov (details in Oschepkov and Raikov 1995).

  6. 6.

    Controversial claims about possible detections of gravitational signals by Nautilus and Explorer antennas (Astone et al. 2002, 2006), if confirmed, require a new analysis of the potential sources of gravitational waves (Coccia et al. 2004).

  7. 7.

    An expansion in Newtonian absolute space would imply one privileged point where the celestial body must remain at rest. Therefore, if one observes expansion of matter and has grounds to think that it is a universal phenomenon, one cannot simultaneously accept absolute space and the no-centre principle. In the modern paradigm the concept of no centre results from the overall expansion of space together with the uniform substance.

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