1305.0163 (Youngsub Yoon)

Falsification of Mannheim's conformal gravity    [PDF]

Youngsub Yoon

We show that Mannheim's conformal gravity doesn't reduce to Newtonian gravity at short distances. Therefore, despite the claim that it successfully explains galaxy rotation curves, it seems falsified by numerous Cavendish-type experiments performed at laboratories on Earth whose work haven't found any deviations from Newton's theory. In particular, we give three reasons why Mannheim's conformal gravity is wrong, the most significant of which is that the gravitational potential of conformal gravity doesn't reduce to the Newtonian one even in short distance limit.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0163