1996/11/13 by Philip D. Mannheim
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/bf02282129
published as Found.Phys.26:1683-1709,1996 · LaTeX, 20 pages plus three figures in two postscript files. To appear in a special issue of Foundations of Physics honoring Professor Lawrence Horwitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday; A. van der Merwe and S. Raby, Editors, Plenum Publishing Company, N.Y., 1997
arxiv created 1996/11/13 · openalex publication_date 1996/12/01 · arxiv updated 2010/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
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.