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# Derivation of Generalized Einstein's Equations of Gravitation Based on a Mechanical Model of Vacuum and a Sink Flow Model of Particles

Version 1 : Received: 19 June 2018 / Approved: 22 June 2018 / Online: 22 June 2018 (06:19:33 CEST)
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Journal reference: Reports on Mathematical Physics 2019
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4877(19)30067-9

## Abstract

J. C. Maxwell, B. Riemann and H. Poincar$\acute{e}$ have proposed the idea that all microscopic particles are sink flows in a fluidic aether. Following this research program, a previous theory of gravitation based on a mechanical model of vacuum and a sink flow model of particles is generalized by methods of special relativistic continuum mechanics. In inertial reference frames, we construct a tensorial potential which satisfies the wave equation. Inspired by the equation of motion of a test particle, a definition of a metric tensor of a Riemannian spacetime is introduced. Applying Fock's theorem, generalized Einstein's equations in inertial systems are derived based on some assumptions. These equations reduce to Einstein's equations in case of weak field in harmonic reference frames. In some special non-inertial reference frames, generalized Einstein's equations are derived based on some assumptions. If the field is weak and the reference frame is quasi-inertial, these generalized Einstein's equations reduce to Einstein's equations. Thus, this theory may also explains all the experiments which support the theory of general relativity. There exists some differences between this theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity.

## Keywords

Einstein's equations; gravitation; general relativity; sink; gravitational aether

## Subject

PHYSICAL SCIENCES, General & Theoretical Physics

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Commenter: Xiao-Song Wang
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Comment: 1. An assumption is revised;
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