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The mantra about gravitation as curvature is a misnomer. The curvature tensor for a standard of rest does not describe acceleration in a gravitational field but the \underline{gradient} of the acceleration (e.g. geodesic deviation). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-31 Engelbert L. Schucking

The main purpose of this paper is to seek a mechanical interpretation of gravitational phenomena. We suppose that the universe may be filled with a kind of fluid which may be called the $\Omega (0)$ substratum. Thus, the inverse-square law…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Xiao-Song Wang

Many approaches to quantum gravity have resorted to diffusion processes to characterize the spectral properties of the resulting quantum spacetimes. We critically discuss these quantum-improved diffusion equations and point out that a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-27 Gianluca Calcagni , Astrid Eichhorn , Frank Saueressig

The gravitational field of a particle of small mass $\mu$ moving through curved spacetime, with metric $g_{ab}$, is naturally and easily decomposed into two parts each of which satisfies the perturbed Einstein equations through $O(\mu)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-01 Steven Detweiler

In the framework of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity it is possible to establish the energy-momentum tensor of the gravitational field. This tensor has the following essential features: (1) it is identified directly in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Maluf

We discuss some effects induced by quantum field fluctuations on mass, inertia and gravitation. Recalling the problem raised by vacuum field fluctuations with respect to inertia and gravitation, we show that vacuum energy differences, such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The change of the effective dimension of spacetime with the probed scale is a universal phenomenon shared by independent models of quantum gravity. Using tools of probability theory and multifractal geometry, we show how dimensional flow is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

A quantitatively verifiable expression for the Gravitational Constant is derived in terms of quantum mechanical quantities. This derivation appears to be possible by selecting a suitable physical process in which the transformation of the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Engel Roza

The Einstein-Vlasov equations govern Einstein spacetimes filled with matter which interacts only via gravitation. The matter, described by a distribution function on phase space, evolves under the collisionless Boltzmann equation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-29 Lars Andersson , Mikołaj Korzyński

A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon J. Clark , Robin W. Tucker

We discuss and expand a new approach to the thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity and its diffusion toward general relativity (seen as an equilibrium state) proposed in a previous Letter [Phys. Rev. D 103, L121501 (2021)], upon which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Valerio Faraoni , Andrea Giusti , Andrea Mentrelli

We define the notion of mutual quantum measurements of two macroscopic objects and investigate the effect of these measurements on the velocities of the objects. We show that multiple mutual quantum measurements can lead to an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Walter Hahn , Boris V. Fine

In the framework of the method of constraint system quantization, a quantum gravitational system (QGS) with the maximally symmetric geometry is studied. The state vector of the QGS satisfies the set of wave equations which describes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

We establish a general relation between the canonical energy-momentum tensor of Lagrangian dynamics and the tensor that acts as the source of the gravitational field in Einstein's equations, and we show that there is a discrepancy between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-01 Hans C. Ohanian

I discuss some theoretical ideas concerning the representation of quantum gravity as a Lorentz-symmetry-violating `medium' with non-trivial optical properties, which include a refractive index in `vacuo' and stochastic effects associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 N. E. Mavromatos

Recently, it is shown that, the quantum effects of matter are well described by the conformal degree of freedom of the space-time metric. On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that according to Einstein's gravity theory, gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Shojai

General relativity and its cosmological solution predicts the existence of tensor modes of perturbations evolving on top of our Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker expanding Universe. Being gauge invariant and not necessarily coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-20 Amaury Micheli , Patrick Peter

A novel theory of Quantum Gravity is presented in which the real gravitons manifest themselves as holes in space. In general, these holes propagate at the speed of light through an expanding universe with boundary denoted by U, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Gregory W. Horndeski

Every emission of radiation in gravity also includes a nonwavelike component that leaves a permanent change in proper distances of the spacetime it travels through. This phenomenon is known as gravitational displacement memory. Building up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-21 Lavinia Heisenberg , Benedetta Rosatello , Guangzi Xu , Jann Zosso

The explicit relationship is determined between the interior properties of a static cylindrical matter distribution and the metric of the exterior space-time according to Einstein gravity for space-time dimensionality larger or equal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Colding , N. K. Nielsen , Y. Verbin