Challenging mysteries of the Universe with gravity beyond general relativity
概要
Physics starts with the familiar. The mass of an apple, the speed of a falling apple, the temperature of an
apple or an apple rolling down a hill are all concepts that are as well-known to Newton as they are to all.
And, through the ages, we learned to model and describe these in rigorous mathematical terms. In so
doing, physics expanded into new territories. As of today, while some familiar phenomena still require
their own formulation, such as the dynamics of sand, many physicists have now trouble to sleep because
of other observations, far from life’s everyday’s scales, observations that bring deeply puzzling mysteries.
These apparently come in two flavors. On the one end, considering larger and larger distances, there is
realm of astrophysics and cosmology. On the other end, diving into smaller and smaller objects, stands
the quantum land and the standard model of particles.
It is fair to say that both fields have undergone revolutionary developments in the XXth century,
when their unintuitive yet highly successful frameworks were formulated. ...