The Case for Nonlocal Modifications of Gravity
arXiv:1807.01791
Abstract
The huge amounts of undetected and exotic dark matter and dark energy needed to make general relativity work on large scales argue that we should investigate modifications of gravity. The only stable, metric-based and invariant alternative to general relativity is models. These models can explain primordial inflation, but they cannot dispense with either dark matter or dark energy. I advocate nonlocal modifications of gravity, not as new fundamental theories but rather as the gravitational vacuum polarization engendered by infrared quanta produced during primordial inflation. I also discuss some of the many objections which have been raised to this idea.
30 pages, uses LaTeX 2e, to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Quantum Gravity, SUST, March 26-28,2018
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