TITLE:
Revamping Newtonian Gravity
AUTHORS:
Donald H. Eckhardt, José Luis Garrido Pestaña
KEYWORDS:
Gravitons, Dark Matter, Dark Energy
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.5 No.7,
June
19,
2014
ABSTRACT: The
nineteenth century’s quest for the missing matter (Vulcan) ended with the
publication of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. We contend that the
current quest for the missing matter is parallel in its perseverance and in its
ultimate futility. After setting the search for dark matter in its historic perspective,
we critique extant dark matter models and offer alternative explanations—derived
from a Lorentz-invariant Lagrangian—that will, at the very least, sow seeds of
doubt about the existence of dark matter.