https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05827-3
Regular Article
Varying Newton’s constant: a cure for gravitational maladies?
1
Theoretical Physics Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, T1K 3M4, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, 110007, Delhi, India
Received:
18
June
2024
Accepted:
8
November
2024
Published online:
30
November
2024
We show that a slowly varying Newton’s constant, consistent with existing bounds, can potentially explain a host of observations pertaining to gravitational effects or phenomena across distances spanning from planetary to the cosmological, relying neither on the existence of dark matter or (and) dark energy, nor on any expected high proportions of either of them in the Universe. It may also have implications at very short distances or quantum gravity scales.
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