Abstract:
A relativistic theory of gravitation is constructed uniquely on
the basis of the special principle of relativity and the principle
of geometrization, the gravitational field being regarded as a
physical field in the spirit of Faraday and Maxwell, possessing
energy, momentum, and spin 2 and 0. The source of the
gravitational field is the total conserved energy-momentum tensor
of the matter and the gravitational field in Minkowski space.
Conservation laws hold rigorously for the energy-momentum, and
angular momentum of the matter and the gravitational field. The
theory explains all the existing gravitational experiments. By
virtue of the geometrization principle, the Riemannian space has a
field origin in the theory, arising as an effective force space
through the action of the gravitational field on the matter. The
theory gives a prediction of exceptional power – the Universe is
not closed, merely “flat”. It follows from this that in the
Universe there must be “hidden mass” in some form of matter.