Theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:33 am
Mathematicians offer unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field equations
GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATIONS AND THEORY OF DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY
GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATIONS AND THEORY OF DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY
Shouhong Wang, a professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Mathematics, and Tian Ma, a professor at Sichuan University, suggest the law of energy and momentum conservation in spacetime is valid only when normal matter, dark matter and dark energy are all taken into account.
"The difference between the new field equations and Einstein's equations is the addition of a second-order covariant derivative of a scalar potential field," he said. "Gravity theory is fundamentally changed and is now described by the metric of the curved spacetime, the new scalar potential field and their interactions."