Electronic Resource
Springer
General relativity and gravitation
30 (1998), S. 1717-1728
ISSN:
1572-9532
Keywords:
GRAVITON
;
MASS
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Can we give the graviton a mass? Does it even make sense to speak of a massive graviton? In this essay I shall answer these questions in the affirmative. I shall outline an alternative to Einstein Gravity that satisfies the Equivalence Principle and automatically passes all classical weakfield tests (GM/r ≈ 10-6). It also passes medium-field tests (GM/r ≈ 1/5), but exhibits radically different strong-field behaviour (GM/r ≈ 1). Black holes in the usual sense do not exist in this theory, and large-scale cosmology is divorced from the distribution of matter. To do all this we have to sacrifice something: the theory exhibits prior geometry, and depends on a non-dynamical background metric.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026611026766
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