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John W. Moffat is a Canadian physicist. He is currently professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto and is also an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Moffat is best known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his nonsymmetric gravitational theory and scalar–tensor–vector gravity , and summarized in his 2008 book for general readers, Reinventing Gravity. His theory explains galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter. He proposes a variable speed of light approach to cosmological problems. The speed of light c may have been more than 15 orders of magnitude higher during the early moments of the Big Bang. His recent work on inhomogeneous cosmological models purports to explain certain anomalous effects in the CMB data, and to account for the recently discovered acceleration of the expansion of the universe.

Moffat has proposed a new nonlocal variant of quantum field theory, that is finite at all orders and hence dispenses with renormalization. It also generates mass without a Higgs mechanism. Wikipedia  

✵ 1932   •   Other names John Moffat (physicist)
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“Hunting for elusive dark matter is now a multibillion dollar international scientific industry.”

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 4, Dark Matter, p. 75

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“This is the only sure way I know to counter the anti-Copernican idea that the universe is accelerating in our epoch - to get rid of the problem entirely!”

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 15, Dark Energy And The Accelerating Universe, p. 207

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“A large part of the relativity community is in denial”

refusing even to contemplate the idea that black holes may not exist in nature, or seriously consider the idea that any kind of new matter such as the new putative dark energy can play a fundamental role in gravity theory.
Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 14, Do Black Holes Exist In Nature?, p. 204

“When I was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1950s, Sir Isaac Newton's presence was still almost palpable.”

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 1, The Greeks To Newton, p. 24

“Is the reader feeling confused about the status of the black hole information paradox and black holes in general? So am I!”

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 5, Conventional Black Holes, p. 87

“Inflation itself proceeds at a speed faster than the measured speed of light.”

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 6, Inflation And Variable Speed Of Light (VSL), p. 102

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