The Gravitational Constant: Generalized Gravitational Theories and Experiments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Screening and Absorption of Gravitation in Pre-Relativistic and Relativistic Theories

   • H.-H. von Borzeszkowski, T. Chrobok, H.-J. Treder

   Pages 1-37

3. Conformal Frames and D-Dimensional Gravity

   • K. A. Bronnikov, V. N. Melnikov

   Pages 39-64

4. Graviton Exchange and the Gravitational Constant

   • M. J. Clark

   Pages 65-79

5. Some Base for Quantum Gravity

   • Venzo de Sabbata, Luca Ronchetti

   Pages 81-111

6. Brane-inspired models in gravitation and cosmology

   • Dmitri Gal’tsov

   Pages 113-137

7. Experimental Test of a Time-Temperature Formulation of the Uncertainty Principle

   • G. T. Gillies, S. W. Allison

   Pages 139-147

8. The Newtonian Gravitational Constant: Present Status and Directions for Future Research

   • G. T. Gillies, C. S. Unnikrishnan

   Pages 149-155

9. Toward testing the fundamental physics by SNIa data

   • Włodzimierz Godłowski, Marek Szydłowski, Wojciech Czaja

   Pages 157-191

10. Investigation of Schmutzer’s Exact External Spherically Symmetric Static Solution for a Central Body within the Framework of the 5-Dimensional Projective Unified Field Theory

    • A. Gorbatsievich

    Pages 193-204

11. On exact solutions in multidimensional gravity with antisymmetric forms

    • V. D. Ivashchuk

    Pages 205-231

12. 5D gravity and the discrepant G measurements

    • J. P. Mbelek

    Pages 233-245

13. 2-Component Cosmological Models with Perfect Fluid and Scalar Field: Exact Solutions

    • V. N. Melnikov, V. R. Gavrilov

    Pages 247-268

14. Constraints on Non-Newtonian Gravity from Recent Casimir Force Measurements

    • V. M. Mostepanenko

    Pages 269-288

15. Searching for Scalar-Tensor Gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging

    • Kenneth Nordtvedt

    Pages 289-311

16. Is a Hypothetical Long Range Spin Interaction Observable with a Laboratory Detector?

    • R. C. Ritter, G. T. Gillies

    Pages 313-329

17. Prospects for a Space-Based Determination of G with an Error Below 1 PPM

    • Alvin J. Sanders, George T. Gillies

    Pages 331-340

18. Projective Unified Field Theory Revisited and Adapted to the New Measured Values (WMAP). New Results Refer to Approximate Static Interior and Exterior Solution of a Spherically Symmetric Perfect Fluid Sphere with Applications to Celestial Bodies, Einstein Effects with Particular Treatment of the Perihelion Shift of Mercury Including the Quadrupole Moment of the Sun

    • Ernst Schmutzer

    Pages 341-380

19. The Interface of Quantum Mechanics and Gravity

    • C. S. Unnikrishnan

    Pages 381-393

20. Quaternionic Program

    • Alexander P. Yefremov

    Pages 395-409

An up-to-date description of progress and current problems with the gravitational constant, both in terms of generalized gravitational theories and experiments either in the laboratory, using Casimir force measurements, or in space at solar system distances and in cosmological observations.
Contributions cover different aspects of the state and prediction of unified theories of the physical interactions including gravitation as a cardinal link, the role of experimental gravitation and observational cosmology in discriminating between them, the problem of the precise measurement and stability of fundamental physical constants in space and time, and the gravitational constant in particular.
Recent advances discussed include unified and scalar-tensor theories, theories in diverse dimensions and their observational windows, gravitational experiments in space, rotational and torsional effects in gravity, basic problems in cosmology, early universe as an arena for testing unified models, and big bang nucleosynthesis.

• Big Bang
• Cosmology
• EFE
• Gravitational constant
• Gravity
• Quantum mechanics
• RMS
• Universe

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Venzo Sabbata

• University of Virginia, USA

  George T. Gillies

• Moscow University, Russia

  Vitaly N. Melnikov

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