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  2. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    Newton's law was later superseded by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, but the universality of the gravitational constant is intact and the law still continues to be used as an excellent approximation of the effects of gravity in most applications.

  3. Entropic gravity - Wikipedia

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    The theory claims to be consistent with both the macro-level observations of Newtonian gravity as well as Einstein's theory of general relativity and its gravitational distortion of spacetime. Importantly, the theory also explains (without invoking the existence of dark matter and tweaking of its new free parameters ) why galactic rotation ...

  4. DGP model - Wikipedia

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    The Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati(DGP) model is a model of gravity proposed by Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati in 2000. [1] The model is popular among some model builders, but has resisted being embedded into string theory.

  5. Extended theories of gravity - Wikipedia

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    Extended theories of gravity are alternative theories of gravity developed from the starting points investigated first by Albert Einstein and Hilbert. These are theories describing gravity, which are metric theory , "a linear connection" or related affine theories, or metric-affine gravitation theory .

  6. Action at a distance - Wikipedia

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    However, until 1915 gravity stood apart as a force still described by action-at-a-distance. In that year, Einstein showed that a field theory of spacetime, general relativity, consistent with relativity can explain gravity. New effects resulting from this theory were dramatic for cosmology but minor for planetary motion and physics on Earth ...

  7. Alternatives to general relativity - Wikipedia

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    Extremely few non-metric theories satisfy this. For example, the non-metric theory of Belinfante & Swihart [26] [27] is eliminated by the THεμ formalism for testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle. Gauge theory gravity is a notable exception, where the strong equivalence principle is essentially the minimal coupling of the gauge covariant ...

  8. Teleparallelism - Wikipedia

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    New teleparallel gravity theory (or new general relativity) is a theory of gravitation on Weitzenböck spacetime, and attributes gravitation to the torsion tensor formed of the parallel vector fields. In the new teleparallel gravity theory the fundamental assumptions are as follows:

  9. Category:Theories of gravity - Wikipedia

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    Gauge gravitation theory; Gauge theory gravity; Gauge vector–tensor gravity; Gauss–Bonnet gravity; Gauss's law for gravity; Geometrodynamics; Graviscalar ...