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Volume 14: Pages 208-211, 2001

A New Proposal for Gravitational Radiation

Francis X. Vacanti

28 Cedar Hill Road, Dover, Massachusetts 02030 U.S.A.

Contrary to the usual treatment of gravitational waves in general relativity, the Maxwell‐like theory of gravitation implies negative gravitational energy in vacuum and in gravitational waves. The present Maxwell approach to gravitation is consistent with the expansion of the universe.

Keywords: Maxwell‐like theory of gravitation, negative gravitational energy, expansion of the universe

Received: October 29, 1999; Published online: December 15, 2008