On the Multiple Deaths of Whitehead's Theory of Gravity

Abstract

Whitehead's 1922 theory of gravitation continues to attract the attention of philosophers, despite evidence presented in 1971 that it violates experiment. We demonstrate that the theory strongly fails five quite different experimental tests, and conclude that, notwithstanding its meritorious philosophical underpinnings, Whitehead's theory is truly dead.

22 pages; to be submitted to Studies In History And Philosophy Of Modern Physics

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• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Three Year Results: Implications for Cosmology
• The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment

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• Space-time models derived from Schwarzschild's solution