Can general-relativistic description of gravitation be considered complete?

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1998-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9805067v1

Mod.Phys.Lett.A13:1393-1400,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Essay Awarded "Honorable Mention" by Gravity Research Foundation (1998). The answer to the question posed in the title is an e

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217732398001455

The local galactic cluster, the Great attractor, embeds us in a dimensionless gravitational potential of about - 3 x 10^{-5}. In the solar system this potential is constant to about 1 part in 10^{11}. Consequently, planetary orbits, which are determined by the gradient in the gravitational potential, remain unaffected. However, this is not so for the recently introduced flavor-oscillation clocks where the new redshift-inducing phases depend on the gravitational potential itself. On these grounds, and by studying the invariance properties of the gravitational phenomenon in the weak fields, we argue that there exists an element of incompleteness in the general-relativistic description of gravitation. An incompleteness-establishing inequality is derived and an experiment is outlined to test the thesis presented.

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