Varying Newton's constant: a cure for gravitational maladies?

Abstract

We show that a slowly varying Newton's constant, consistent with existing bounds, can potentially explain a host of observations pertaining to gravitational effects or phenomena across distances spanning from planetary to the cosmological, relying neither on the existence of Dark Matter or (and) Dark Energy, nor on any expected high proportions of either of them in the Universe. It may also have implications at very short distances or quantum gravity scales.

22 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; to appear in Eur. Phys. J. Plus