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We measured Newton's gravitational constant G using a new torsion balance method. Our technique greatly reduces several sources of uncertainty compared to previous measurements: (1) it is insensitive to anelastic torsion fiber properties;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jens H. Gundlach , Stephen M. Merkowitz

The evolution of Earth-Moon system is described by the dark matter field fluid model proposed in the Meeting of Division of Particle and Field 2004, American Physical Society. The current behavior of the Earth-Moon system agrees with this…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-13 Hongjun Pan

In the late 1990s, observations of type Ia supernovae led to the astounding discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. The explanation of this anomalous acceleration has been one of the great problems in physics since…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Wun-Yi Shu

It is straightforward to determine the size of the Earth and the distance to the Moon without making use of a telescope. The methods have been known since the 3rd century BC. However, few amateur or professional astronomers have worked this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kevin Krisciunas , Erika DeBenedictis , Jeremy Steeger , Agnes Bischoff-Kim , Gil Tabak , Kanika Pasricha

Ptolemy's model of the Moon's motion implied that its distance varies by nearly a factor of two, implying that its angular size should also vary by nearly a factor of two. We present an analysis of 100 naked eye observations of the Moon's…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Kevin Krisciunas

The Sun's relativistic gravitational gradient accelerations of Earth and Moon, dependent on the motions of the latter bodies, act upon the system's internal angular momentum. This spin-orbit force (which plays a part in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kenneth Nordtvedt

It is shown that using the relativistic field theory of gravity (RTG) and measured value of $\Omega_{tot}$ one can obtain the upper limit on the graviton mass with 95%C.L.: $m\leq 1.6\cdot 10^{-66}$ [g]; within the $(1\sigma)$ range its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-28 S. S. Gershtein , A. A. Logunov , M. A. Mestvirishvili , N. P. Tkachenko

We propose a phenomenological approach to the cosmological constant problem based on generally covariant non-local and acausal modifications of four-dimensional gravity at enormous distances. The effective Newton constant becomes very small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Savas Dimopoulos , Gia Dvali , Gregory Gabadadze

We consider a linearized, effective quantum theory of gravitation in which gravity weakens at energies higher than ~10^-3 eV in order to accommodate the apparent smallness of the cosmological constant. Such a theory predicts departures from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Caldwell , Daniel Grin

In this paper, we showed that gravity might have been repulsive in the first moments of the Universe! To find this, we used quantization of the anti-commuting space and derived a gravitational equation in the limit $T \gg T_p$, which shows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-26 Ramin Hassannejad , S. Navid Mousavi

In modified theories of gravity including a critical acceleration scale, $a_{0}$, a critical length scale, $r_{M}=(GM/a_{0})^{1/2}$, will naturally arise, with the transition from the Newtonian to the dark matter mimicking regime occurring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 X. Hernandez

We consider the AQUAL theory - a theory of modified gravity capable of resolving the missing mass problem - and study its predictions for micro gravity tests at the gravitational saddle points of the Solar system. We report that the AQUAL…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-06 Qasem Exirifard

It is suggested that gravity waves could, in several cases, be detected by means of already (or shortly to be) available technology, independently of current efforts of detection. The present is a follow-up on a recently suggested detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Redouane Fakir

Since the 1930s, astronomical observations have accumulated evidence that our understanding of the dynamics of galaxies and groups of galaxies is grossly incomplete: assuming the validity of Newton's law of gravity on astronomical scales,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sascha Trippe

We present gravitation as a theory in which the coordinates are distances and velocities between galaxies. We show that there are three possibilities for the Universe to expand: decelerating, constant and accelerating, and it is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Carmeli

Some results are presented of the Earth's microseismic background. It is assumed that background peaks should correspond to the resonance gravity-wave exchange in the system of two gravity-connected bodies. The microseismic spectrum is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Dubrovskiy

We attempt to find new symmetries in the space-time structure, leading to a modified gravitation at large length scales, which provides the foundations of a quantum gravity at very low energies. This search begins by considering a unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-13 Claudio Nassif

The paper is based on the recently proposed 4-dimensional optical space theory and draws some of its consequences for gravitation. Starting with the discussion of central movement, the paper proceeds to establish the a metric compatible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

General relativity predicts that clocks run more slowly near massive objects. The effect is small---a clock at sea level lags behind one 1000 m above sea level by only 9.4 ns/day. Here, we demonstrate that a measurement of this effect can…

If gravity were an emergent phenomenon, some relativistic as well as non-relativistic speculations claim it is, then a certain emergence time scale tau_? would characterize it. We argue that the available experimental evidences have poor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi