Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gravity doesn't exist

Re:Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gra... by claudius on Saturday April 20, 2013 @08:08AM (#5581123)

Original paper at [0], some corrections/comments at [1,2]. [3] argues that the proposed new ideas and the classical (Newtonian, If I understood this correctly) concept of gravity are actually identical, given suitable identifications of various entities.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5858

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3876

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1015

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Re:Physicist proposes new theory of gravity, arguig that gra... by davidweir on Saturday April 20, 2013 @09:01AM (#5581254)

Useful to note that parent's Ref. 0 has been peer-reviewed and is published in JHEP, a respectable high energy physics journal.

Sadly, articles like those linked often do not check the authors' credentials or whether the research being summarised has been successfully published somewhere rather than just put on the arXiv.

The BBC (and possibly others) go further, asking rival or independent researchers to comment on new work; this approach (check for peer review and also seeking critical comment from third parties) should be the expected standard in scientific news reporting for a lay audience.

DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2011)029

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