CPL.Luke Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I just found this surfing wikipedia, apparently its an alternative to general relativity that agrees with all experimental observations supporting general relativity. any thoughts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans-Dicke_theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltanova Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 anyone know if it has been published in a peer review paper? if so, which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BhavinB Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 There are references at the bottom of the wikipedia link, here's probably what you're looking for. C. Brans and R. H. Dicke (1961). Mach's principle and a relativistic theory of gravitation. Phys. Rev. 124: 925. EDIT: After looking up this paper, I noticed its been cited 1670 times by OTHER peer reviewed papers. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 apparently the only reason brans-dicke theory isn't accepted as the gold standard of gravity is that there is a "tunable constant" (omega) that can be made to fit experimental observation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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