Scalar-tensor-vector gravity

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Scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) is a theory of gravity which, like other theories including Modified Newtonian dynamics (otherwise known as MOND), attempts to explain the rotation of galaxies by doing away with dark matter. Unlike MOND, STVG explains galactic clustering as well. Developed by Joel Brownstein and John Moffat, researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo.

[edit] See also

• Modified Newtonian Dynamics
• Tensor-vector-scalar gravity
• General theory of relativity
• Law of universal gravitation
• Pioneer anomaly
• Nonsymmetric Gravitational Theory
• Dark matter
• Tensor
• Vector
• Scalar - scalar field

[edit] External links

• STVG
  • Gravity theory dispenses with dark matter (New Scientist)
  • Scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory JW Moffat (Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics) 6 March 2006
  • Scalar-Tensor Gravity Theory For Dynamical Light Velocity M. A. Clayton, J. W. Moffat (arXiv) Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:09:24 GMT

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