Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-11-13
Found.Phys.26:1683-1709,1996
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTeX, 20 pages plus three figures in two postscript files. To appear in a special issue of Foundations of Physics honoring Pr
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF02282129
Our long experience with Newtonian potentials has inured us to the view that gravity only produces local effects. In this paper we challenge this quite deeply ingrained notion and explicitly identify some intrinsically global gravitational effects. In particular we show that the global cosmological Hubble flow can actually modify the motions of stars and gas within individual galaxies, and even do so in a way which can apparently eliminate the need for galactic dark matter. Also we show that a classical light wave acquires an observable, global, path dependent phase in traversing a gravitational field. Both of these effects serve to underscore the intrinsic difference between non-relativistic and relativistic gravity.
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