%0 Journal Article %T A new synthesis of matter and gravity: A nongravitating scalar field %A Inyong Cho %A Hyeong-Chan Kim %J Physics %D 2013 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.064038 %X We present a new manifestation of the nonlinearity of the gravity-matter interactions. We show explicitly that there exists a nongravitating dynamical scalar-field solution in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. This kind of solution has not been found in previous literatures based on general relativity, or other modified-gravity theories. The nongravitating solution obtained in this work is unstable to perturbations. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3341v2