Ether theory of gravitation: why and how?
| dc.creator | Arminjon, Mayeul | |
| dc.date | 2004-01-07 | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:30:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:30:34Z | |
| dc.description | Gravitation might make a preferred frame appear, and with it a clear space/time separation--the latter being, a priori, needed by quantum mechanics (QM) in curved space-time. Several models of gravitation with an ether are discussed: they assume metrical effects in an heterogeneous ether and/or a Lorentz-symmetry breaking. One scalar model, starting from a semi-heuristic view of gravity as a pressure force, is detailed. It has been developed to a complete theory including continuum dynamics, cosmology, and links with electromagnetism and QM. To test the theory, an asymptotic scheme of post-Newtonian approximation has been built. That version of the theory which is discussed here predicts an internal-structure effect, even at the point-particle limit. The same might happen also in general relativity (GR) in some gauges, if one would use a similar scheme. Adjusting the equations of planetary motion on an ephemeris leaves a residual difference with it; one should adjust the equations using primary observations. The same effects on light rays are predicted as with GR, and a similar energy loss applies to binary pulsars. | |
| dc.description | Standard LaTeX, 60 pages. Invited contribution to the book ``Ether, Spacetime and Cosmology" (M. C. Duffy, ed.), to appear at Hadronic Press. v2: minor improvements, new refs., post-scriptum summarizing later work | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401021 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401021 | |
| dc.identifier | Ether, space-time and cosmology, Vol. 1: Modern ether concepts, relativity and geometry (M. C. Duffy and J. Levy, Eds.), PD Publications, Liverpool, UK (2008), pp. 139-201. ISBN: 1 873 694 10 5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/158158 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Ether theory of gravitation: why and how? | |
| dc.type | text |