On the Multiple Deaths of Whitehead's Theory of Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Whitehead's 1922 theory of gravitation continues to attract the attention of philosophers, despite evidence presented in 1971 that it violates experiment. We demonstrate that the theory strongly fails five quite different experimental tests, and conclude that, notwithstanding its meritorious philosophical underpinnings, Whitehead's theory is truly dead.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0611006,
title = {On the Multiple Deaths of Whitehead's Theory of Gravity},
author = {Gary Gibbons and Clifford M. Will},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0611006},
year = {2008}
}
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22 pages; to be submitted to Studies In History And Philosophy Of Modern Physics