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" Reinventing gravity : "
John W. Moffat.
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BL
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787018
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b607034
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John W. Moffat.
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Reinventing gravity : : a physicist goes beyond Einstein\ John W. Moffat.
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Pymble, NSW ; New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2008
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0061578770
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: 0061705845
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: 0061705985
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: 9780061578779
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: 9780061705847
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: 9780061705984
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| Notes
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 14, 2008).
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| Contents
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Introduction: A new gravity theory --; Prologue: The elusive planet Vulcan, a parable --; Discovering and reinventing gravity --; The Greeks to Newton --; Einstein --; The standard model of gravity --; The beginnings of modern cosmology --; Dark matter --; Conventional black holes --; Updating the standard model --; Inflation and variable speed of light (VSL) --; New cosmological data --; Searching for a new gravity theory --; Strings and quantum gravity --; Other alternative gravity theories --; Modified gravity (MOG) --; Envisioning and testing the MOG universe --; The pioneer anomaly --; MOG as a predictive theory --; Cosmology without dark matter --; Do black holes exist in nature? --; Dark energy and the accelerating universe --; The eternal universe.
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Astrophysics.
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General relativity (Physics)
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Quantum gravity.
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QC178.J646 2008
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John W Moffat
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