Attractive and Repulsive Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2022-10-12 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We discuss the circumstances under which gravity might be repulsive rather than attractive. In particular we show why our standard solar system distance scale gravitational intuition need not be a reliable guide to the behavior of gravitational phenomena on altogether larger distance scales such as cosmological, and argue that in fact gravity actually gets to act repulsively on such distance scales. With such repulsion a variety of current cosmological problems (the flatness, horizon, dark matter, universe age, cosmic acceleration and cosmological constant problems) are then all naturally resolved.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0001011,
title = {Attractive and Repulsive Gravity},
author = {Philip D. Mannheim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0001011},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
RevTeX, 31 pages. Prepared for Foundations of Physics Festschrift in honor of Kurt Haller