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The theory was inspired by the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory for electrodynamics. [3] When Richard Feynman , as a graduate student, lectured on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in the weekly physics seminar at Princeton , Albert Einstein was in the audience and stated at question time that he was trying to achieve the same thing for ...
Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor theories (or DHOST theories) are theories of modified gravity.They have a Lagrangian containing second-order derivatives of a scalar field but do not generate ghosts (kinetic excitations with negative kinetic energy), because they only contain one propagating scalar mode (as well as the two usual tensor modes).
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 ...
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 .
Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a theory that proposes a modification of Newton's laws to account for observed properties of galaxies. Modifying Newton's law of gravity results in modified gravity, while modifying Newton's second law results in modified inertia. The latter has received little attention compared to the modified gravity ...
Before Newton's law of gravity, there were many theories explaining gravity. Philoshophers made observations about things falling down − and developed theories why they do – as early as Aristotle who thought that rocks fall to the ground because seeking the ground was an essential part of their nature.
The 12th-century scholar Al-Khazini suggested that the gravity an object contains varies depending on its distance from the centre of the universe (referring to the centre of the Earth). Al-Biruni and Al-Khazini studied the theory of the centre of gravity, and generalized and applied it to three-dimensional bodies.