• A large-scale heuristic modification of Newtonian gravity as an alternative approach to dark energy and dark matter

• # Fulltext

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/joaa/042/0102

• # Keywords

Dark matter; dark energy; gravity; graviton mass.

• # Abstract

The peculiarities of the inverse square law of Newtonian gravity in standard big bang cosmology are discussed. It is shown that the incorporation of an additive term to Newtonian gravitation, as the inverse Yukawa-like field, allows removing the incompatibility between the flatness of the Universe and the densityof matter in the Friedmann equation, provides a new approach for dark energy, and enables theoretical deduction of the Hubble–Lemaitre law. The source of this inverse Yukawa-like field is the ordinary baryonic matter and represents the large-scale contribution of gravity in accordance with the Mach principle. It isheuristically built from a specular reflection of the Yukawa potential, in agreement with astronomical and laboratory observables, resulting null in the inner solar system, weakly attractive in ranges of interstellar distances, very attractive in distance ranges comparable to the clusters of galaxies, and repulsive in cosmicscales. Its implications in the missing mass of Zwicky, virial theorem, Kepler’s third law in globular clusters, rotation curves of galaxies, gravitational redshift, and Jean’s mass are discussed. The inclusion of the inverse Yukawa-like field in Newtonian gravitation predicts a graviton mass of at least 10$^{-64}$ kg and could be an alternative to the paradigm of non-baryonic dark matter concomitant with the observables of the big bang.

• # Author Affiliations

1. Departamento de Fı´sica, FACYT, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela.

• # Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

Volume 42, 2021
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