Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein - Hardcover

Moffat, John W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887622828 ISBN 13: 9780887622823

Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub, 2008

Synopsis

A bold revision of one of the most successful theories of all time: Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Physicists have long known that something is wrong with gravity. Einstein’s relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics are fundamentally incompatible, which has prompted the last 30 years of work in string theory and quantum gravity. However, John Moffat has identified a bigger problem: not only does Einstein’s theory not work in the world of the very small; it does not seem to work in the world of the very large either. Moffat has developed a modified theory of gravity, or MOG, that can explain the behaviour of our universe as well as Einstein’s, without resorting to dubious, yet long-claimed excuse for the existence of invisible "dark matter."As John Barrow of the University of Cambridge asserts, the simplicity of Moffat’s model demands that physicists take this daring new theory seriously. Now, for the first time,Reinventing Gravityintroduces general readers to Moffat’s groundbreaking new ideas about the universe.

About this title

About the Author:

John W. Moffat is professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, as well as a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. He earned a doctorate in physics at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0887622828
• ISBN 13: 9780887622823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272