1998/05/18 by D. V. Ahluwalia, D. V. AHLUWALIA · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732398001455
published as Mod.Phys.Lett.A13:1393-1400,1998 · Essay Awarded "Honorable Mention" by Gravity Research Foundation (1998). The answer to the question posed in the title is an experimentally verifiable "no."
arxiv created 1998/05/18 · openalex publication_date 1998/06/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The local galactic cluster, the Great attractor, embeds us in a dimensionless gravitational potential of about -3×10 -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.