Electrogravitational
vacuum
Electrogravitational
vacuum describes properties of physical
vacuum and cosmic space devoid of matter based on the modernized Le Sage’s theory of gravitation and implies that the vacuum is filled with particles
called gravitons and with tiny charged particles. Some of these particles have
a large Lorentz factor, similarly to ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, which
imparts a dynamic character to the vacuum. Due to high penetrating capacity
when moving in matter, these particles are considered to be responsible for emergence
of gravitational [1] [2] [3] and
electromagnetic [4] [5] forces between bodies. In addition,
photons and neutrinos can consist of these particles. [6] The
composition of these particles and their properties are determined using the
theory of Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter,
similarity of matter levels and SPФ symmetry. In particular, fluxes of charged particles such
as praons are assumed to be the main
active component of the electrogravitational vacuum. [7]
Contents
Existing
models of vacuum
In physics, there are numerous models
suggested to define the vacuum characteristics. Thus, the vacuum of free space,
in which the laws of classical electromagnetism hold true, should satisfy the
following conditions:
In Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation the vacuum is characterized as follows:
The above characteristics of classical
vacuum are presented in the article on vacuum constants.
In General Relativity, the vacuum solution (general relativity) can be obtained when gravitational field in the
absence of electromagnetic field is calculated in empty space outside matter,
where the stress-energy tensor of matter and non-gravitational fields is equal
to zero. Despite the equality of this tensor to zero, in empty space there
still can be curvature of spacetime, which, through the metric tensor and its
derivatives, defines the effect of gravitation from some local or global
source. Besides, variations in solutions are possible, which depend on taking
into account the cosmological constant and the choice of its sign. Due to the
connection with the metric tensor, the gravitational field in this theory is a
tensor field.
Its own vacuum is also assumed
within covariant theory of gravitation, in which gravitational field is a vector field,
since it is given by the four-potential and gravitational tensor. In this case,
the connection between gravitation and geometry, between gravitational field
and metric tensor, which is characteristic of general theory of relativity, is
broken. The gravitational field is assumed to be physical interaction, which,
just as electromagnetic interaction, becomes independent of the metric tensor
that characterizes the properties of spacetime depending on parameters of source
of gravitational field. The source of gravitational field here means some
material object or physical system of matter and its proper fields, and the
vacuum is treated as a contents of space outside the system’s matter. For
infinite space that does not contain a visible source of gravitational field,
it follows from the field equations that gravitational field strength and gravitational torsion field
in the simplest case are constant vectors
that do not depend on time. Provided that
and
in such a space the scalar potential
and the vector potential
of gravitational field should be constant
values, independent of coordinates and time. Thus, it can be assumed that in
the vacuum, far from the sources of gravitational field, both the
four-potential and the gravitational tensor vanish. Another peculiarity of this
vacuum is that, due to gauging of system’s relativistic energy and equation for
the metric, outside the matter both the cosmological constant and the scalar
curvature vanish. [8] Meanwhile in relativistic uniform system both the cosmological constant and scalar curvature
inside matter turn out to be constant values.
In quantum physics, the basic
quantity is Planck constant as a typical quantity of action for any particles
under consideration. Taking this quantity into account changes vacuum
properties required for the theory. Thus, in quantum electrodynamics, it is
assumed that electromagnetic interaction between charged particles occurs by
means of photons as carriers of interaction. This means that the charged
particles must absorb and emit photons in order to change their energy and
momentum. QED vacuum is assumed to
be filled with various virtual particles, including short-lived photons and
electron-positron pairs. Virtual particles define zero-point oscillations of
the vacuum as its ground state. The energy of the vacuum’s zero-point
oscillations is called zero-point energy, its
exact magnitude is unknown. It is supposed that a change in zero-point energy
with a change in system’s configuration in vacuum leads to Casimir effect. Under influence of electromagnetic field, vacuum polarization takes place and various subtle effects can occur. In
this case, the vacuum will become diamagnetic, so that relative magnetic
permeability will be less than unity. The vacuum also exhibits dielectric
properties, since relative permittivity is greater than unity.
One of the problems of such
vacuum is that zero-point energy, which is estimated to have a very large
magnitude, does not manifest itself as a source of gravitational field and is
not part of mathematical apparatus of general theory of relativity. This leads
to the problem of discrepancy between the vacuum’s zero-point energy and observed
small value of cosmological constant, which is known as cosmological constant problem.
The vacuum of quantum
chromodynamics is considered to be filled with gluon condensate and fermionic condensate of quarks. Both condensates can give mass to
elementary particles and hadrons, and fermionic condensate possesses
superfluidity. The condensates should have such properties that the color confinement and hadrons’ masses could be explained.
QED vacuum and QCD vacuum are the constituent parts of vacuum in Standard Model, which, however, does not take into account
gravitation.
The superfluid vacuum, containing
some superfluid or Bose-Einstein condensate, is viewed as a basis for quantum-based unification
of all four fundamental interactions, including weak interaction, strong interaction, electromagnetic interaction, and gravitational interaction. The fluid is assumed to consist of
fermion-antifermion pairs and is described with the help of macroscopic wave
function. Interaction of the fluid with elementary particles gives mass to the
latter. At low energies and momenta of the fluid fluctuations, treated as
virtual particles, this fluid is considered an ideal one, leading to Lorentz covariance.
However, attempts to present gravitation as a consequence of relativistic
motion of the fluid fluctuations did not produce a result. The probable reason
for this is said to be the fact that macroscopic curvature of spacetime in general
theory of relativity can be the long-wavelength limit that does not work on the
small scales of quantum gravitation.
Unfortunately, all the vacuum
models presented above mainly describe its properties, which are required in
one or another theory. As for the substantial component of the vacuum, which
defines its structure and represents the specific carriers that determine
characteristics of the vacuum, the information here is either missing or
extremely speculative.
Description
of electrogravitational vacuum model
Composition
of vacuum’s particles
The electrogravitational vacuum
model is based on the theory of Infinite
Hierarchical Nesting of Matter,
which considers the universe from the point of view of scale dimension, SPФ symmetry, similarity of matter levels and quantization of parameters of cosmic systems. On the scale axis all objects of universe can be
placed, which are grouped into matter levels. Each basic level of matter has
its own most dense and long-lived objects with the maximum energy density, with
strong gravitational, electric and magnetic fields. At the level of stars these
objects are neutron stars, at the atomic level they are nucleons. Neutron stars
consist of nucleons, and by analogy nucleons consist of praons, and praons
consist of graons. Praons and graons have their own levels of matter, similar
to the nucleon level of matter.
In the electrogravitational
model, the vacuum includes a set of densest objects of an infinite number of
those matter levels that are below the matter level corresponding to the
observer. For a human observer the main components of te
physical vacuum are individual nucleons, praons, graons and even smaller
particles, as well as complex and composite objects that consist of them. For
example, atomic nuclei consist of nucleons, and we can conceive similar nuclei
of praons or graons. It is assumed that ordinary photons emitted by atoms
consist of praons, and the neutrinos observed in experiments consist of graons.
[6] Since masses of main objects in the chain of matter levels:
neutron star-nucleon-praon-graon -... are rapidly decreasing, it is obvious
that at present it is quite difficult to detect and register in the vacuum
individual praons or individual photons consisting of graons.
If observer belonged to the
metagalactic level of matter, then for him the vacuum would also contain such
objects as neutron stars, white dwarfs, ordinary main sequence stars and
planets. All these objects are composed of nucleons and have their analogues on
the nucleon level of matter. Thus, the analogue of a white dwarf from the point
of view of matter evolution under action of gravitation is a nuon, and from the point of view of matter’s
radioactive decay the analogue of a white dwarf is a muon. The neutron star of
the lowest possible mass is the analogue of a pion.
In addition to nucleons, matter
also contains electrons, the analogues of which at the level of stars are
discons, that is, massive discs discovered in some neutron stars and magnetars.
[9] [10] Discons, just as the stars themselves, can carry
an electric charge. A magnetar with a positive charge and a discon with a
negative charge are analogous to a hydrogen atom in hydrogen system.
Galaxies correspond to smallest dust particles, in the center of which there is
solid matter and on the outside, there is thick gaseous shell of different
atoms. The latter analogue becomes thicker over time, since the stars in galaxies
evolve and turn into neutron stars and white dwarfs. In this picture magnetars
are formed from neutron stars, just as protons are formed in free neutron decay. The
matter of discons in its density and composition must be close to the density
and composition of planets and must contain mainly elements like iron and other
metals. Since all stars, planets and discons are composed of nucleon matter,
under appropriate conditions all these objects can be transformed and generate
each other.
Objects like discons and
electrons must be present at every level of matter, forming together with the
main objects the corresponding matter. For example, elementary particles
(nucleons, electrons, hadrons and leptons) must consist of praons and praelectrons
just as stars and planets consist of nucleons and electrons. This allows
elementary particles to transform into each other. The similarity between the
matter levels allows us to construct the models of elementary particles, such
as the substantial neutron model, the substantial proton
model, the substantial electron model, the substantial photon
model.
We assume that black holes do not
exist, as they are attributed the property of absorbing matter and do not
letting anything out. But this contradicts the fact that the graviton field
penetrates all bodies, and thereby creates gravitational phenomena. If a black
hole would only absorb the energy of graviton fluxes, it would acquire in a
short time a huge amount of mass-energy and should grow indefinitely in size,
which is not observed.
The highly rarefied vacuum of
cosmic space outside dust and gas clouds may contain:
By analogy, from the point of view
of a human observer the electrogravitational vacuum must contain all those
smallest objects that either cannot be directly registered in experiment, or
are the sources generating gravitational and electromagnetic fields, and are
also causing strong and weak interactions. Thus, this vacuum includes praons,
graons and even smaller particles, as well as objects consisting of them, which
have smaller masses and energies than the known elementary particles.
Physical
parameters of vacuum particles
In order to determine parameters
of vacuum particles the similarity theory is used. A typical neutron star has a
mass of 1.35 solar masses, a radius of about 12 km, and characteristic speed of particles’ motion in such a star reaches the value
of 0.23 the speed of light. Dividing these quantities by the corresponding
quantities for the proton, we find the coefficients of similarity: in mass Ф
= 1.62∙1057 , in size Р = 1.4∙1019 , in speed S
= 2.3∙10-1 . In the first approximation, we can assume that the same
coefficients of similarity in mass and size are also valid for the relation
between praons and nucleons. Hence we can determine the praon’s
mass kg and radius
m. Using the praon’s
mass and radius, we can estimate the average density of its matter
kg/m3 .
The characteristic speed of particles
of matter inside a proton and a praon is quite close to the speed of light. If
at the center of a neutron star the Lorentz factor reaches the value then at the
center of a proton the Lorentz factor for the praons located there is equal
to
[11] Hence it follows that coefficient of similarity
in speed for the levels of nucleons and praons is close to unity,
. Taking this into account it is possible to
determine the gravitational constant
acting on the praon level of matter. The
similarity relations between the levels of praons and nucleons give:
, and therefore
m3•s–2•kg–1.
The Boltzmann constant for the
level of praons at is given by the expression:
J/K , where
is the Boltzmann constant.
If we calculate kinetic energy of
a proton as for a
certain typical particle moving at the center of a neutron star, then using the
equality
we can
estimate the maximum temperature at the center of the star:
K. Similarly,
the temperature at the center of a proton will be
K.
The typical angular momentum at
each level of matter is given by corresponding Dirac constant. For compact
stars the stellar Dirac constant is J∙s, for the
nucleon level of matter the Dirac constant is
J∙s, while the quantum spin of a nucleon is
equal to
. In order to estimate the Dirac constant
at the level of praons, the similarity
relation is applied:
. If the
coefficient of similarity in speed is
, then we obtain
J∙s. Then from the similarity theory it
follows that photons of the praon level of matter have energies
less than the
energies of the corresponding photons of the nucleon level of matter.
Accordingly, we can say approximately the same with respect to the difference
between the energies of relativistic graons, relativistic praons and
high-energy cosmic rays. It is assumed that graons are responsible for strong
gravitation, and praons are responsible for ordinary gravitation, while the
Dirac constant for graons is substantially less than the Dirac constant
for praons. The picture described above
differs fundamentally from the quantum gravitation approach, which considers
gravitons as objects that necessarily have a spin in the form of the Dirac
constant
.
For the strong gravitational constant the following relation holds true:
where is the elementary charge,
is the electric constant,
is the proton mass,
is the electron mass,
is the ratio
of the proton mass to the electron mass.
Similarly, at the level of praons
we have the following:
Hence we find the praon charge C.
Acting similarly, we can obtain
the parameters of graons and other vacuum particles.
Gravitational
field
In the model under consideration,
the gravitation effect arises under action of gravitons – the smallest
relativistic vacuum particles that fill the whole space and act within the
framework of modernized Le Sage’s theory.
Besides, each basic level of matter is characterized by its own gravitational
constant. For the level of stars it is the ordinary gravitational constant, and for the nucleon level of matter it is the strong gravitational constant. [12] The particles of the graon level of
matter are assumed to be responsible for the effect of strong gravitation,
which holds nucleons and elementary particles in integrity, and the particles
of the praon level of matter are responsible for the ordinary gravitation.
The gravitons can be both neutral
particles, such as neutrinos and photons, and relativistic charged particles,
similar in their properties to cosmic rays. The effective mass of all these
particles is their relativistic mass-energy, taking into account the great in
magnitude Lorentz factor. In particular, the gravitons can be the praons
accelerated by the strong fields near nucleons almost to the speed of light. As
part of the graviton field, such relativistic praons can participate in
creation of ordinary gravitation, according to the Le Sage’s model, and give
mass to the bodies at the macrolevel. In this case, the praons have their own
rest mass, which arises from the action of the gravitons of lower levels of
matter. During interaction with the fields and matter, relativistic praons can
produce high-energy photons, which can also serve as the particles of the
graviton field. The energy of ordinary photons is proportional to their
frequency and the Planck constant. But for the particles belonging to different
levels of matter, the value of the Planck constant varies considerably
according to the infinite nesting of matter – the lower is the level of matter,
the less is respective Planck constant and the lower is the energy of photons
at this level of energy. As a result, the graviton field represents a
multi-component system of particles, photons and neutrinos, the energies of
which are associated with each of an infinite number of matter levels.
The energy density of graviton
fluxes responsible for gravitation in the model of cubic distribution of fluxes
of particles in space equals: [2] [5]
J/m 3,
where is the gravitational constant,
is the proton mass,
m2 is the cross-section of
interaction of gravitons with the matter for the ordinary gravitation,
m3•s–2•kg–1 is the strong gravitational constant,
m2
is the cross-section of interaction of the vacuum’s charged particles
with nucleons during electromagnetic interaction. In this case, the relation
holds:
.
The obtained value of energy
density of graviton fluxes defines field mass-energy
limit and exceeds the rest energy
density of the proton J/m3
, with the proton radius
m according to the article. [13]
The flux of gravitons’ energy in
one direction has the value of the order of W/m2.
If gravitons represented the electromagnetic field quanta, then for the
temperature of the field of gravitons in the form of photons we can get an
estimate
K.
The expressions for gravitational
field strengths inside and outside the ball, obtained in the model of
gravitons, are in good agreement with the values of the field strengths in Lorentz-invariant
theory of gravitation. [2] Going from field strengths to field
potentials, using Lorentz transformation, introducing gravitational
four-potential, one
can find gravitational
stress-energy tensor, gravitational
field equations, gravitational force, as well as contribution of gravitational
field into equation for the metric. This means that the gravitational field
theory both in the flat Minkowski space and in the curved spacetime is fully
proved at the substantial level through the graviton field. And dependence of
metric on gravitational field potential allows us to take into account influence
of inhomogeneous graviton field on results of space-time experiments, based as
a rule on the use of electromagnetic waves and devices.
As for the value of limiting
force of attraction between two contacting massive bodies, the following value
was found: [1]
N,
which implies the case when the
graviton fluxes are completely retained by these bodies.
Here is the speed of light,
for the case of uniform density. If we divide
by the mass of a typical neutron star, which
is equal to
solar masses, we obtain the acceleration
m/s2.
For comparison, the gravitational acceleration on the surface of this star,
with its radius
km, is equal to
m/s2.
The difference between the
Newton’s formula for the force of attraction between two neutron stars in
their contact and the formula that takes into account the scattering of
gravitons in the stars’ matter due to high density of matter leads to reduction
of acting force to the value
. [3]
The presented model describes how
bodies acquire mass as a measure of inertia. The body mass can be expressed in
terms of luminosity of those graviton fluxes that interacted with the body
matter and transferred their momentum to it. In this case, the graviton
luminosity is proportional and almost equal to the rest energy of the body,
released from the body per time of gravitons’ passing the radius of the body.
The body mass at a constant volume is proportional to the concentration of
nucleons, and similarly the number of interactions of gravitons with nucleons
increases with increasing of concentration of nucleons. Thus, the body’s
inertia as the resistance to the applied force and gravitational mass of the
body are caused by the action of graviton field on the given body. As it
follows from the principle of relativity, at a constant velocity the action of
graviton fluxes from different sides is balanced, but it is not so in case of
the body’s acceleration. When the body is accelerated, a force must be applied
and work must be carried out to bring the body from the state with one velocity
into the state with a different velocity. This work is done against the action
of gravitons fluxes and leads to the concept of mass as a measure of the body’s
inertia proportional to applied force and inversely proportional to the
emerging acceleration.
The gravitational mass is
determined from the expressions for gravitational field’s strength and
potential, and therefore it differs from the inertial mass of the body, since
the latter takes into account contributions to the mass from all the body’s
proper fields. In relativistic uniform system, it is found that the inertial mass is less than the
gravitational mass, [14] [15]
As a rule, the majority of
gravitons pass through matter without losing their energy and momentum. An estimate of total graviton
luminosity of a neutron star as the power of energy fluxes of gravitons passing
through the star and interacting with its matter yields a value of the order of W. If we divide this value by the number of
nucleons in the neutron star, we obtain the average luminosity of those
gravitons that interact with each nucleon of matter and transfer their momentum
to it: [2]
W.
The meaning of this value at
first glance is not quite clear. However, with the help of similarity
coefficients we can calculate a similar value at the level of stars – the
luminosity of those gravitons that interact with each neutron star and impart
mass to it due to the loss of their momentum:
W.
In physics, there is such a known
quantity as Eddington luminosity, which means the limiting luminosity of a star. When
this luminosity is exceeded, the star begins to lose mass due to ejection of matter
from the surface under action of radiation from the star. If a neutron star
with the mass , where
is the mass of the Sun, has ionized hydrogen
in its atmosphere, then the Eddington luminosity for it would be equal to
W.
The coincidence of the quantities
and
seems surprising, but it is not accidental,
since both quantities have limiting character and are associated with the
integrity of the neutron star as such. Due to
the star does not only gain mass as a measure
of inertia in graviton fluxes, but also acquires quite definite distribution of
pressure and temperature in matter, reaching a maximum at the center. Solving
the equations of acceleration field allows us to calculate dependence of Lorentz factor of the particles’
motion inside the star as a function of current radius. [16] The
star cannot cool down below the limit, which is set by the graviton fluxes for
each state of matter, and therefore it always has a certain minimum degree of
heating of this matter, the corresponding binding energy, potential
gravitational energy and gravitational acceleration. Under action of
gravitational acceleration, the nucleons are forced against the surface of the
star, but if the star has radiation luminosity
, which is equal to the luminosity of gravitons
, the nucleons
acquire additional energy. This energy would be just enough for the star to
lose mass due to evaporation of nucleons from the surface.
Electromagnetic
field
The presence in vacuum of
relativistic charged particles helps to explain mechanism of attraction and
repulsion between the charges of different and opposite signs, [3]
which acts similarly to the Fatio-Le Sage's mechanism for the force of
gravitational attraction of masses. This implies the same form of laws in the
Coulomb force for charges and in the Newton force for masses, as well as similarity
of Maxwell's equations and equations of gravitational field in Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation. [12]
The interaction picture is shown
in Figures 1, 2, 3.
Fig.1. The lines of motion of small particles of vacuum, which are a)
positively charged, b) negatively charged, near two bodies one of which is
neutral and the other is positively charged.
Fig.2. The lines of motion of small particles of vacuum which are a)
positively charged, b) negatively charged, near two bodies, one of which is
negatively charged and the other is positively charged.
Fig.3. The lines of motion of small particles of vacuum, which are
negatively charged, near two positively charged bodies.
Figure 1 shows motion of small
charged particles of vacuum near the two bodies, one of which is neutral and
the other is positively charged. As can be seen, both positive and negative
particles act symmetrically on the positively charged body, which does not
result in emerging of any additional force in comparison with the force of
gravitation. The same applies to the second neutral body. Figure 2 a) shows
that the positive particles push the negatively charged body to the left, and
Figure 2 b) shows that the negative particles push the positively charged body
to the right (when the smallest particles pass through the body similarly to
gravitons, they transfer their momentum to them). Consequently, both bodies
will be attracted to each other.
Figure 3 shows the lines of
motion of negative particles of vacuum near two positively charged bodies. Both
bodies attract the negative particles and obtain an additional momentum from
them, which leads to repulsion of bodies. The motion of positive particles of vacuum
in Figure 3 is not shown. It is assumed that they are repelled from the bodies
and therefore their interaction with them is weak. For two negatively charged
bodies the interaction is similar to the one shown in Figure 3, only it is
necessary to replace the signs of all charges. This results in repulsion of
similarly charged bodies. The common in all the Figures is the fact that
depending on the sign of the charge of two bodies the number of charged
particles falling on the body changes so that after calculating the momentum
transferred from these particles the electric force with required direction
emerges. Thus, we reduce the interaction between the charges at a distance to
the interaction by means of charged particles of vacuum.
The energy density of fluxes of
the vacuum’s charged particles, responsible for occurrence of electric force
between the charged bodies, in the model of cubic distribution of the fluxes of
particles in space is equal to: [5]
J/m3,
where is electric constant,
is elementary charge,
m2 is cross-section of interaction
of vacuum’s charged particles with nucleons.
The energy flux of vacuum’s
charged particles in one direction is of the order of W/m2.
Estimation of concentration of the vacuum’s charged particles in the form of concentration
of relativistically moving praons gives the value
m–3, and Lorentz factor reaches the
value
.
The limiting current density as
the current density in vacuum in one direction, emerging from the flux of
positively charged praons in case of cubic distribution, is equal to:
A/m2.
In books [3] [12]
the assumption is made that some neutron stars – magnetars can have a positive
electric charge of up to C, where
is elementary electric charge and similarity
coefficients are used in accordance with the dimensional analysis. The charge
of the star can also be determined by the formula similar to the formula for strong
gravitational constant. This gives the following:
where the magnetar’s mass equals solar masses,
is the ratio of the proton mass to the
electron mass.
In this case, the electric force
of repulsion acting on one proton on the surface of the charged star would
equal 55 N, which is much greater than gravitational force of attraction of the
proton to the star. However the magnetar looks like a huge atomic nucleus
consisting of a number of closely-spaced nucleons. The balance of attractive
and repulsive forces, arising from strong gravitation in gravitational model
of strong interaction, can
be responsible for integrity of the atomic nuclei, as well as for the integrity
of the charged neutron star. Besides, the proton charge and the magnetar charge
are limiting values, which means that an increase in these charges would lead
to destruction of these objects.
In a magnetar, the average
concentration of nucleons is m–3,
and the average concentration of the positive charge is
m–3.
In view of the Beer–Lambert law, the flux of
gravitons decreases exponentially as it moves through the matter:
, here
is the number
of gravitons
entering the matter from the vacuum through
the area
over time
from the solid angle
. Similarly, the flux of charged
particles decreases exponentially as it moves through the charged matter:
.
Assuming that km, for the
exponents it turns out:
,
. It follows
that if we put three neutron stars in the way of the flux of gravitons, the
flux will reduce approximately by a factor of
,
where
is Euler's number
as the base of the natural logarithm. But for the flux of charged particles of vacuum
in order to reduce it noticeably we need to put in a line about 140 magnetars.
This difference in fluxes allows
us to explain the saturation effect of the specific binding energy, when the
nuclear binding energy per nucleon, depending on the number of nucleons in
nuclei, first increases, reaching a maximum of 8.79 MeV per nucleon for the
nucleus , and then begins to decrease. [3] [17]
For light nuclei the increase in the specific energy agrees well with the
increase of the specific gravitational energy of the nucleus in strong
gravitational field, when the energy increases in direct proportion to the
square of mass and in inverse proportion to the radius of the nucleus. The
saturation effect comes into play in the range of 17 to 23 nucleons, forming
the nucleus. Besides, adding a new nucleon to the nucleus increases the energy
not proportionally to the square of mass, but to a lesser extent. This is due
to the fact that gravitons of strong gravitation cannot permeate the nucleus
with a lot of nucleons, as is evident from the exponent. Each new nucleon is
simply pressed to the nucleus from the outside by the strong gravitation, until
for the large nuclei this force reaches the maximum, conditioned by the
pressure of the graviton flux. However, the charged particles of the vacuum in
these conditions have almost 50 times larger path length, and therefore the
positive electrical energy of the nucleus’ protons further decreases the
negative gravitational energy of the nucleus, making the main contribution into
the observed decrease in the specific binding energy of massive nuclei.
In this model, the fluxes of
charged particles of vacuum are the cause of the so-called displacement currents in the vacuum, which are proportional to the rate of
change of electric field with the time. Here, an example is the chargeable
capacitor, between the plates of which there appears a magnetic field, despite
the absence of electron current in the capacitor.
Since electric constant
remains the same and does not change during SPF symmetry transformation, and the gravitational constant has
its own value at each level of matter, then the electromagnetic interaction can
be considered primary with respect to gravitational interaction.
Interaction
of vacuum’s particles with matter
The main problem of Le Sage’s theory
is the problem of heating of bodies, both for the fluxes of gravitons leading
to gravitation and for the fluxes of charged praons creating electromagnetic
interaction at the nucleon level of matter. Actually, since the fluxes of
gravitons and charged particles must transfer some part of their momentum to matter
to give rise to gravitational and electromagnetic forces, it also seems that
some part of the energy of these fluxes should turn into kinetic energy of
motion of matter and thus heat it to high temperatures, which is not observed.
It turns out that there is such a
mechanism possible, when the fluxes of smallest relativistic particles transfer
some momentum to a body’s matter, but at the same time they almost completely
conserve their energy and are re-emitted into the surrounding space without
heating the body significantly. So, in physics fields are known that do not
perform work on particles and do not change their energy. This is the magnetic
field, as well as gravitational torsion field in covariant theory of
gravitation, known as gravitomagnetic
field in general theory of relativity. A relativistic charged particle, passing
through the region of space with magnetic field, is deflected from the original
direction of motion by the Lorentz force, in which case amplitude of the
particle’s momentum and its energy do not change. Despite this, the pressure
force from the particle is exerted on the source of the magnetic field. This
happens because the momentum like any vector can change both in magnitude and
in direction, and any change in the momentum is associated with the
corresponding force.
The analogue of nucleons at the
level of stars is a neutron star, and the fluxes of praons correspond to cosmic
rays. The cosmic rays, passing close to a neutron star, will interact with the
strong magnetic field of the star and be deflected by it. Obviously, if the
flux of cosmic rays on one side of the star is stronger than on the others,
then the stronger flux will start to shift the star due to the magnetic
pressure. The same effect takes place also due to the gravitational torsion
field, which is especially strong in rapidly rotating neutron stars and it
interacts even with neutral fast-moving particles, since it does not act on the
moving charge but on the momentum of particles.
The fluxes of praons moving in matter
are influenced not only by magnetic fields of nucleons, but also by electric
fields of uncompensated charges of individual protons and electrons. These
fields also deflect the fluxes of praons without significant changes in the
energy of praons, which is a consequence of potentiality of electric field.
Actually, if the fluxes of positively charged praons fly towards the proton,
they are first decelerated by electric field of the proton and decrease their
energy, and then when they fly past the proton, they start accelerating from
the proton under influence of the same field and increase their energy up to
the previous level. The gravitational force acts on gravitons in a similar way.
With the help of the described
mechanism the fluxes of gravitons and praons can create gravitational and
electromagnetic interactions in matter of bodies without heating these bodies
significantly. [5] Passing through matter the fluxes of gravitons
and praons, consisting of a large number of tiny particles, act simultaneously
on the nucleons, electrons and atomic nuclei, compressing them in direction of gradient
of corresponding flux and creating gravitational and electromagnetic
acceleration. The fact that interaction cross-section characterizes both the electromagnetic
interaction of fluxes of praons with nucleons and strong gravitation from the
fluxes of gravitons at the level of nucleons, and is equal by the order of
magnitude to the cross-section of nucleon, suggests that the interaction forces
can actually emerge near the surface of nucleons. Here, the electric and
gravitational fields, the magnetic field and the torsion field of nucleons
reach the maximum and can effectively interact with the fluxes of praons and
gravitons. As gravitons, leading to strong gravitation, are suggested graons as
the particles that make up praons just as praons make up nucleons or as
nucleons make up a neutron star. For graons in order to become gravitons they
must be accelerated up to relativistic energies in the processes near the
surface of praons.
According to the second problem
of the Le Sage’s theory, during motion excess pressure of gravitons and charged
particles in front should emerge drag effect, proportional to velocity of the bodies’ motion. As a
result of resistance to the bodies’ motion from the fluxes of gravitons,
long-term rotation of planets around the Sun would not be possible and the
principle of free inertial motion in the absence of forces would not hold true.
When a charged body moves in the fluxes of relativistic charged particles, both
the momentum of the particles falling on the body at the front and the fluence
of fluxes of these particles increase. This leads to an increase in the force
at the front in proportion to the square of the particles’ energy.
On the other hand, the
cross-section of the praons’ interaction with the matter should be directly
proportional to the square of the de Broglie
wavelength, and inversely proportional to
the square of energy of praons. This dependence of cross-section in the quantum
theory of elastic scattering is typical of ultrarelativistic photons – the
greater their energy is, the weaker they interact with each other. At the same
time, it is assumed that photons are composed of praons, and the interaction of
praons with the electromagnetic field of nucleons is a special case of photon’s
interaction on virtual photons. Since the force is proportional to momentum of
the particles, their fluence and the interaction cross section, then the force
remains unchanged both for a fixed and a moving body. Thus, the body can move
by inertia and the decelerating force from the fluxes of charged particles of vacuum,
proportional to velocity of motion, does not arise.
The problem of aberration in the
Le Sage’s theory is illustrated by an example, in which in motion of two
gravitationally bound bodies near each other it seems that in view of limited
velocity of the gravitons’ motion, a certain additional force takes place. Indeed,
while the gravitons moving from one body reach the second body, it will move in
its path from the position that is dictated by the Newton’s
theory of gravitation for instantaneous gravitation. As a result, the gravitons
will reach the second body at some other angle to the path,
which gives an additional force component. This problem has been considered for
the case, when two bodies are moving synchronously in the direction
perpendicular to the line connecting the bodies. [1] In this case it
was shown that the problem of aberration of the gravitational force disappears,
if we apply the relations of special theory of relativity to gravitons, which
take into account that velocity of ultrarelativistic particles is not infinite
and is almost equal to the speed of light. In both cases, for fixed and moving
bodies, gravitons reach these bodies at the same angle with respect to the axes
of the proper coordinate system.
The hypothetical problem of
gravitational shielding in Le Sage’s theory suggests that if we place between
two bodies the third body, it will lead to a more noticeable change in the
forces between the bodies, than in case of the Newton's law of gravitation for
three bodies. The measurements of possible Moon’s shielding of the Sun’s
gravitational influence on the Earth during Solar eclipses do not find any
deviation from the theory within the limits of measurement error. This
situation is due to smallness of the cross-section of gravitons’ interaction
with matter. This allows us to expand the exponents in expressions for the
forces into binomials with sufficiently high accuracy and ensures the principle
of superposition of gravitational forces for several bodies. A noticeable
deviation occurs only for such dense objects as white dwarfs and especially for
neutron stars. A similar situation is obtained for the case of electromagnetic
interaction of bodies by means of charged vacuum particles, also leading to the
principle of superposition.
Emergence
of relativistic vacuum’s particles
We can distinguish in vacuum
three components, one of which with the energy density is associated
with strong gravitation and the rest energy of particles, determines the
integrity of nucleons and atomic nuclei, and is mainly responsible for the
inertia of bodies. Another component with the energy density
is responsible
for ordinary gravitation, and the third component in the form of charged
particles with the energy density
leads to electromagnetism.
Each component makes its own contribution to the mass of bodies.
Based on the principles of
Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, the densest objects at each level of
matter are assumed as sources of relativistic charged particles of vacuum –
neutron stars and magnetars, nucleons and atoms, praons as the components that
make up nucleons, etc. These objects emit neutrinos, photons and high-energy
cosmic rays that can make contribution to electrogravitational vacuum at all
levels of matter. As a result, the main sources of vacuum relativistic
particles at a certain level of matter are the emissions from the densest
objects at the lower levels of matter. For example, the core of a neutron star
is constantly heated under action of incident fluxes of gravitons, having a
temperature up to K. The kinetic
temperature at the surface of neutron stars is determined from observations and
has typical value of about
K, and thermal luminosity rarely exceeds
J/s. The stellar core is heated enough to
constantly emit neutrino fluxes, escaping from the star and flowing into surrounding
vacuum. At the time of formation of a neutron star or during its transformation
into a magnetar with reconfiguration of magnetic moment, intense neutrino
fluxes directed by the magnetic field (due to the connection between total
magnetic field and magnetic moments of nucleons) arise, which will act
effectively at a higher level of matter than the stellar level.
Neutron stars generate not only
neutrino fluxes, but also give rise to cosmic rays, as it follows from the
study of supernova remnants. The proton energy on surface of charged magnetar can
reach J or
eV, here
C is the charge of magnetar,
is the electric constant,
km is the star radius.
For comparison, the highest
recorded values of cosmic ray energies per 1 nucleon according to estimations
are of the order of eV, reaching
the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin
limit, and so is the maximum recorded
energy of photons and neutrinos. Oh-My-God particle had
energy of the order of
eV. If we
assume that the cosmic rays are accelerated from the surface of the discon surrounding
the magnetar, then for the energy of emitted particle with one elementary
charge we can write:
J or
eV, where
m denotes the
stellar Bohr radius, while
, where
is the Bohr radius in hydrogen atom,
is the coefficient of similarity in size. The
coincidence of energy
with the energy of the recorded particles
suggests that the possible source of cosmic rays can actually be magnetars with
discons.
In this picture the energy of gravitational
field is transformed by neutron stars with the help of different mechanisms
into energy of particles (neutrinos, protons, photons), the high energy of
which causes the high penetrating ability of these particles. Applying this to
other levels of matter, we find the source of relativistic particles of vacuum
– it is the emissions from the densest objects, such as nucleons and neutron
stars, including the emission of such objects as atoms. The presence of
constant electric charge in the magnetar allows it to generate cosmic rays and
various particles for a long time – similarly to a proton, which is practically
eternal. Thus, if each level of matter would have a long lifetime, it will be
enough to transform the energy of the gravitons at the lower levels of matter
into energy of charged particles and gravitons, which will act at the higher
levels of matter.
Photons
Main article: Substantial photon model
In substantial electron model the electron in the form of a disk is considered, in
which the charged matter rotates differentially, and ensures the magnetic
moment of the electron. In addition, the electron spin is explained as a result
of shift of the disk’s center relative to the nucleus and rotation of this
center in addition to the matter rotation in the electron cloud. If the
electron transits into the quantum state with lower energy, it emits a photon,
which carries with it the angular momentum that is proportional to the Dirac constant.
In this process, the scattering of charged particles of vacuum on the electron
disk, taking into account the action of magnetic and electric fields in wave
zone, leads to formation of a photon as an object preserving its structure for
a long time.
In papers, [5] [6]
a model of a photon emitted in an atomic transition in a hydrogen-like atom is
considered. Associating the photon parameters and its structure with the
parameters of the emitter – the charged electron disk, it was possible to
determine the charge to mass ratio for the particles that make up the photon.
As a result, it turned out that photons consist of praons of
very high energies, comparable to the energies that cosmic rays would have if
these rays emerged at the nucleon level of matter near the protons. These
relativistic praons must form the basis of charged particles of vacuum, leading
to electromagnetic interaction through the mechanism of Lesage. Indeed, in interaction
of praons of vacuum with electron in atomic transition, the twisting of praons
takes place under action of fields along the axis of electron disk, and the
appearing photon carries away the excess angular momentum of the electron from
the atom. Meanwhile, part of praons of vacuum is part of photon, so that the
speed of the photon actually is the speed of praons in the fluxes of particles
of the vacuum and close to the speed of light.
In contrast to chaotic motion of
praons in vacuum, the praons in a photon are rigidly bound to each other by
both electromagnetic and gravitational forces. The situation here is similar to
the situation with the nucleons, which only in special circumstances can form
extremely stable formations – the atomic nuclei. According to gravitational model of strong interaction, the nucleons in atomic nuclei are attracted to each
other by strong gravitation and repel each other by means of gravitational torsion field, arising from the rapid rotation of the nucleons. In
order to form the nucleus, the nucleons must interact with each other only in a
strictly defined orientation of the spins and magnetic moments and must have
sufficient initial energy that allows rotating the nucleons up to the desired
rotation speed by means of gravitational induction.
The praons in photon can interact with each other in a similar way, and for the
praonic level of matter, the gravitational constant reaches m3•s–2•kg–1. In
gravitational field with this large gravitational constant, the praons of photon
can form sufficiently rigid structure, so that the photon could fly large
cosmic distances without decaying.
The substantial photon model suggests that photons have magnetic moment and rest
mass. Thus, for a photon, emerging in a hydrogen atom when an electron goes from
the second level to the first level in the Lyman series, the invariant mass of
praons that make up the photon is equal to
kg or
eV/s2 in energy units, where
is the square of the speed of light.
Strong
interaction
According to gravitational model of strong interaction, strong gravitation acts between nucleons, holding them together. The
nucleons in atomic nuclei are attracted to each other due to strong gravitation
and repel each other due to the gravitational torsion field arising from rapid rotation of nucleons and leading
to spin-spin and spin-orbital forces. In Lorentz-invariant
theory of gravitation the
torsion field emerges similarly to magnetic field in electromagnetism, and in general
theory of relativity it corresponds to gravitomagnetic field. Taking into
account that the torsion field and gravitational field strength are the components of gravitational tensor, strong interaction at the nucleon level of matter is
explained by strong gravitation. At the same time, in contrast to Standard Model, strong interaction must be acting not only between
hadrons, but also between leptons.
Indeed, in the theory of Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, elementary particles differ from each other by the
physical state of their matter and consist of praons and praelectrons.
Similarly, the matter of objects at the stellar level of matter (the matter of
planets, main sequence stars and other ordinary stars, white dwarfs and neutron
stars) consists of nucleons and electrons in different phase states. Strong
gravitation actually acts on every praon of an elementary particle regardless of type of this
particle, just as ordinary gravitation at the Earth’s surface acts either on
individual nucleons or on the same nucleons as part of a test body with any
state of matter.
At each basic level of matter
there is its own gravitation, which is characterized by its own gravitational
constant, and there is also electromagnetic interaction between the charges.
Since gravitational and electromagnetic interactions can be explained by the
action of relativistic particles of electrogravitational vacuum, then strong
interaction at each level of matter turns out to be a consequence of corresponding
gravitational interaction, and not a substantially different type of
interaction. In particular, it is assumed that strong gravitation and hence
strong interaction at the nucleon level of matter are caused by the action of fluxes
of relativistic graons present in electrogravitational vacuum and acting on matter
of elementary particles. [5]
Weak
interaction
The role of weak interaction reduces to the fact that under action of fundamental
forces and strong interaction of objects after their formation take place a
slow transformation of matter. For example, a neutron in a very large time by
the standards of atomic processes turns into a proton, an electron and a
neutrino. The transformation of matter can be significantly accelerated by
external factors. Thus, the incident on an elementary particle a neutrino can
easily convert matter of the particle and cause it to decay into other
particles.
In substantial neutron model, free neutron decay is analyzed using a stellar model
in the form of a neutron star. It is concluded that slow transformation of stellar
matter occurs due to cooling of the star and the subsequent beta decays of the
matter’s neutrons. The neutron beta decay is a consequence of the fact that
individual neutral praons in the neutron’s matter undergo their own beta decays
and turn into positively charged praons, praelectrons and antineutrinos of the
praon level of matter. All this leads to the fact that after a great number of
such decays positively charged praons and negatively charged praelectrons are
accumulated in the neutron shell. When the magnetic field from the charged
praons exceeds the magnetic field from the neutral praons, a catastrophic
reconfiguration of the total magnetic field occurs in the neutron with ejection
of negatively charged part of the shell. Thus, a neutron becomes a proton and
emits an electron and an electron antineutrino. In fact, this antineutrino
represents the sum of praneutrinos and praantineutrinos emitted by a set of
praons of the neutron’s matter in the course of the neutron decay.
It follows from the above that
the processes of weak interaction at a certain basic level of matter again are
reduced to the processes of weak interaction, but already at a lower level of
matter. At the same time, the role of relativistic particles of electrogravitational
vacuum at all levels of matter is reduced to dynamic action on the matter’s
particles, which we consider as gravitational and electromagnetic interactions,
and at the level of nucleons it is represented as strong interaction. The fact
that the long-term dynamic action of vacuum’s particles on objects finally can
lead to a rapid transformation of their matter and to emission of the particles
like neutrinos and antineutrinos is perceived by us as a manifestation of weak
interaction. This also includes reverse processes, when neutrinos and
antineutrinos themselves interact with various objects and transform their
matter with subsequent decay.
Neutrinos
According to the picture of weak
interaction in the model of electrogravitational vacuum, neutrinos and
antineutrinos, similarly to photons, are the vacuum’s particles. On the other
hand, neutrinos and antineutrinos themselves must consist of the main objects
of the respective levels of matter. In particular, it is assumed that neutrinos
and antineutrinos of the nucleon level of matter consist of graons, in contrast
to photons, which consist of praons. [5]
Indeed, during the neutron beta
decay an electron antineutrino is emitted, which consists of the fluxes of
electron praneutrinos and praantineutrinos resulting from the beta decays of
praons of the nucleon’s matter. In the course of the beta decay of each praon,
only graons and even smaller particles of lower levels of matter can become
part of the emerging praneutrino or praantineutrino.
The analysis carried out in the
book [3] shows that the electron antineutrino has the right-handed
helicity and is emitted mainly in direction of e spin of decaying neutron. This
means that the fluxes of electron praneutrinos and praantineutrinos, forming an
electron antineutrino, are twisted to the right. If the same fluxes in other
decays are twisted to the left, then an electron neutrino emerges. Between
rotating praneutrinos and praantineutrinos, consisting of graons, there is strong gravitation
at the matter level of graons, which holds them together as part of neutrinos
or antineutrinos and ensures their long-term stability.
Muon neutrinos and antineutrinos
emerge from the decay of charged pions into muons, as well as from the decay of
muons into an electron (positron) and an electron antineutrino (neutrino),
depending on the sign of the muon charge. In particular, if magnetic moment of
the positive pion coincides in direction with its rotation, then when the pion
decays, a muon neutrino, having the left-handed helicity, should be emitted
mainly in the direction of the south pole of the magnetic field and against the
pion spin, with the helicity corresponding in direction to the rotation of the
pion’s matter.
Similarly to electron neutrinos,
a muon neutrino consists of polarized fluxes of electron praneutrinos and
praantineutrinos, resulting from the weak interaction reactions in the matter
of decaying particles. The difference between electron and muon neutrinos is
mainly associated with the difference in their energy and the peculiarities of
those objects that emit these neutrinos. It is due to the similar composition
of their constituent parts that electron and muon neutrinos have the ability to
transform into each other in neutrino oscillations.
Cosmology
In observable universe, the following properties are found:
The above-mentioned properties of
observable universe should be explained in every cosmological theory. For
example, the most distant regions of observable universe are so far from each
other that during the estimated time of its existence they would not be able to
interact with each other and to achieve the state of uniformity and isotropy.
The processes of interaction between particles and wave quanta in the course of
evolution of observable universe must be such as to lead to the observed ratio
of photons to nucleons.
According to Lambda-CDM model, in visible Universe concentration of baryons is of
the order nucleons per cubic meter. From the ratio
at a given concentration of nucleons and the
known value of cross section for interaction of gravitons with matter for
ordinary gravitation
m2
it is possible to estimate the free path length of gravitons:
m. This value is 23 orders of magnitude
greater than the visible size of Universe, which is estimated by the value of
14 billion parsecs or
m.
Similarly may be estimated the length
of free path of charged particles of vacuum in cosmic space, taking as the
charge concentration in a first approximation the value of the elementary charge per cubic meter,
which is equal to the average concentration of baryons in the Universe. This
approach gives only the minimum value of free path length, since on the average
the matter in the Universe is neutral, and
must reflects the average concentration of total
charge of Universe. From the ratio
at a given concentration of charges and the value
m2,
the free path length of charged particles is
m. This value
is 3 orders of magnitude greater than the visible size of Universe.
Consequently, the charged particles and gravitons can easily reach our Universe
from a distance.
From the standpoint of similarity
of matter levels, the set of all stars in visible Universe corresponds to
extremely rarefied atomic gas. At first glance, this rarefied gas of stars,
even in view of the lower levels of matter, cannot create this energy density
of graviton field J/m3. But in remote areas of cosmic space
the density of matter can be much greater and reach such values, that it can
generate the necessary energy density of graviton field, reaching our Universe.
The effects of redshift of the
galaxy spectra and attenuation of emission from distant supernovae can be
explained by the fact that the light is scattered on new particles or nuons. [18]
These particles are neutral particles of muon type, which emerged naturally in
the same way as white dwarfs emerge in the course of stellar evolution. The
sizes of nuons and their concentration in space, according to Infinite
Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, are so just such that can explain the
scattering of light. Nuons also explain the appearance of background emission
and the effects attributed to dark matter. If we admit the existence of nuons,
then the most important arguments in favor of the Big bang model become
useless. If Universe has existed longer than 13.8 billion years, then gravitons
could have got into our Universe from outside and carried out their action
here.
This shows that 61% of all praons
are part of nucleons, and the rest 39% form nuons or exist separately. The same
proportion remains at the level of stars: 61% of all nucleons over time will be
part of neutron stars, and the rest of nucleons remain either as a gas or as
the matter of white dwarfs. Consequently, concentration of free protons in visible
Universe must be of the same order as the averaged over the entire space
concentration of nucleons in stars, that is of the order of concentration of
baryons m–3, according to Lambda-Cold Dark
Model. With this in mind, the product of concentration of baryons and the
binding energy of a neutron star in calculation per nucleon give us the
estimate of maximum energy density of radiation
in cosmic space:
J/m3. Indeed, the energy density in
the relic radiation equals
J/m 3, and the energy density in stellar
radiation, magnetic fields and cosmic rays is of the same order of magnitude,
as well as kinetic energy of motion of gas particles. The sum of these energy
densities does not exceed the maximum energy density
.
Thus, the electrogravitational
vacuum of Universe, filled with the same particles regardless of the
observation point, due to unified scheme of evolution of matter’s particles at
different levels of matter, allows us to explain the uniformity and entropy of
photons in observable universe. In this case, the predominance of baryons over
antibaryons, which seems surprising in the hot Big Bang model, can occur due to
significant difference in probabilities of emergence of particles and
antiparticles in the model of cold and long-term evolution of Universe. As for
the observed flatness of space, it is a consequence of low mass density of the
observable Universe.
Extended
special theory of relativity
At each point of electrogravitational
vacuum, such isotropic reference frame can be chosen that in it, on the
average, the same and mutually opposite fluxes of vacuum particles would pass
through any unit area per unit time. Thus, there will be no initially selected
direction of motion of these particles. In an isotropic reference frame, the
speed of light is the same in all directions. In extended special theory of relativity (ESTR), the contradictory in its essence postulate
about the constancy of the speed of light and its independence from the motion
of light sources and from the motion of observer is replaced by a physically
more understandable postulate about the existence of an isotropic reference
frame. This leads to the fact that all relations of the special relativity can
be derived in new axiomatics. As a result, the constancy of the speed of light
in inertial reference frames is derived as one of the consequences of ESTR.
General
field
The electrogravitational vacuum
manifests itself by the fact that neutral and charged particles present in it,
when acting on the bodies’ matter, lead to gravitational and electromagnetic
forces between these bodies. These forces ensure both the integrity of bodies
and observed hierarchy of matter levels. In addition, the corresponding charge
and mass, as a measure of inertia, can be attributed to each body. Standard
description of electromagnetic field is its representation in the form of vector
four-dimensional field with electromagnetic four-potential . A similar approach for gravitation gives the
vector covariant theory of gravitation, defined with the help of gravitational four-potential
. In addition to electromagnetic and
gravitational fields, other fields can be detected in matter of macroscopic
bodies, for example, the pressure field, the dissipation field, and
the acceleration field. The
four-potentials
,
and
can be attributed to these fields,
respectively, and these fields can be considered as vector fields. [19]
[20]
In contrast to a scalar field, a
vector field takes into account dependence of the four-potential on velocity of
the field source’s motion, and therefore it provides a more accurate
description of reality. As a result, all vector fields are either direct or
indirect consequences of action of the electrogravitational vacuum’s particles
on matter, and we can assume that there is a certain general field, which has,
as its basis, a single source associated with the vacuum. [21] To
emphasize the relative independence of gravitational and electromagnetic field,
the general field was divided into two main components. [22] One of
them is the mass component of general field, the source of which is the mass
four-current . The source of the second one – the charge
component of general field – is the charge four-current
. The mass component of general field contains
gravitational field, acceleration field, pressure field, dissipation field,
fields of strong and weak interaction, and other vector fields. The charge
component of general field represents the electromagnetic field. The
four-potential of the charge component of general field is the electromagnetic
four-potential
. The four-potential of the mass component of
the general field is equal to the sum of four-potentials of corresponding
fields:
where the four-potentials and
describe the fields of strong and weak
interactions in macroscopic bodies, and effects associated with these fields.
In view of its definition, none
of general field’s components can have the energy density that would exceed the
field mass-energy
limit as the energy density of corresponding
component of electrogravitational vacuum.
Preferred reference frames
Mach's
principle is closely related to the assertion about
possibility of existence of a preferred (privileged) reference frame defined by
any objects of Universe. It is assumed that change in motion of any body relative to the preferred reference frame caused
by the action of another body leads to an inertia force acting from the side of
the first body to the second and changing its state of motion. So, inertial
mass is detected in each body, the product of which on acceleration of the body is equal to
the force of inertia.
The following
statements are known that describe the preferred reference frame:
Fluxes of
gravitons, arriving at an arbitrary point in space, depend on remote sources of
gravitons, and therefore cannot always be exactly the same from all sides, even
taking into account the averaging of action of a huge number of such sources.
Following the fluctuations of the graviton fluxes, an isotropic reference frame
at a given point must change its velocity in order to be considered isotropic.
As a result, isotropic reference frames at different points in space can have
different velocities relative to each other. This means that in the general
case there is no single preferred reference frame for the entire space of Universe
and therefore there is no absolute simultaneity of events.
However, the
averaging procedure allows us to move from microscopically set values to their
average values at the macro level that characterize the system as a whole. It
is known that on a scale of more than 100 Mpc, our Universe looks like a
uniform system. When averaging at such scales, we can talk about a certain
global preferred reference frame, which is isotropic in the first
approximation. With the same degree of approximation in such frame of
reference, the absolute simultaneity of events occurring on a scale of more
than 100 Mpc is achieved. In all other cases, we can only have the relative
simultaneity of events.
Cosmic microwave background radiation can be considered
as one of the components of electrogravitational vacuum. The inhomogeneity and
a high degree of isotropy of the CMB coming to the Earth make it possible to
accurately determine the preferred reference frame associated with this
radiation. This reference frame moves relative to the Sun at a speed of the
order of 370 km/s in the direction opposite to the direction to the
constellation Leo.
A global
preferred reference frame, defined by the supposed single dynamic medium of
reference, was introduced in an article written by Olivier Pignard. [23]
The indicated
dynamic medium affects the surrounding bodies in approximately the same way as
the action of graviton fluxes of electrogravitational vacuum, leading to the
effect of gravitation. The following features of the dynamic medium are
postulated:
1. This
medium is a medium for propagation of light.
2. The speed
of light varies near massive bodies.
3. Bodies
affect the dynamic medium so that it manifests itself in the form of a
curvature of space-time of the general theory of relativity. This means that
test particles and photons accordingly change their motion near massive bodies.
4. Near the
bodies fluxes of the given medium arise towards the center of these bodies. The
speed and acceleration of such a flux are given by the formulas:
where is the gravitational constant,
is the body mass,
is distance from center of the body to the
point of observation outside the body.
The velocity of the dynamic medium flux affects the rulers
and clocks that are stationary relative to the massive body in the same way as
if these rulers and clocks moved in inertial reference frame with the same
velocity
in the absence of the massive body. This
means that in both cases, the same relativistic effects appear that reduce the
size of the rulers and slow down time of the clock, regardless of whether the
flux of the dynamic medium moves relative to the rulers and the clock, or the
rulers and the clock themselves move relative to the dynamic medium. In
particular, relativistic effects due to movement at a speed
of a certain reference frame in an inertial
reference frame depend on the Lorentz factor
. If we put
, then instead of the Lorentz factor in
general relativity, the equivalent value
appears.
The above features
of the dynamic medium are in complete agreement with the properties of
electrogravitational vacuum, in which photons are formed from relativistic
vacuum particles and therefore move almost at the speed of light, just like
gravitons. In the Lesage model, the graviton flux incident on a body from a
certain direction always exceeds the oncoming graviton flux passing through the
body from the opposite direction due to interaction of gravitons with matter
and their partial scattering and absorption. This just corresponds to the fact
that there arises a total flux of gravitons, which can be modeled as some
centripetal directed graviton flux falling from the outside onto any body with
the velocity .
The flux of a
dynamic medium considered above can be considered as total flux of gravitons
acting on rulers and clocks and leading to relativistic effects of length contraction and time
dilation depending on the relative speed of the rulers and clocks in the
isotropic reference frame. In this case, the special theory of relativity
usually considers the movement of rulers and clocks in inertial frames of
reference moving with an arbitrary constant speed relative to a globally
isotropic frame of reference with slightly massive bodies that weakly affect
graviton fluxes. If the bodies are massive, it is necessary to take into
account the general relativity and distortion of the fluxes of gravitons near
such bodies. In this case, we can assume that the velocities of numerous
isotropic reference frames are directed towards massive bodies. Although the
rulers and the clock may be stationary relative to a body, they will be in
motion relative to the local isotropic reference frame at the location of the
rulers and the clock. This leads to relativistic effects in gravitational
field.
As for the
relativistic effect of changing the speed of light near massive bodies, it is
closely related to the procedure of spatio-temporal measurements by means of
light in a light clock, when the bi-directional motion of the light signal
along a closed path is taken into account. This effect appears for a coordinate
observer, that is, for a remote external observer in an inertial reference
frame that is stationary relative to the body, while for a local observer
located at the point of measurement of the speed of light, the speed of light
does not change.
At the same
time, the light source in the light clock should not generate a single narrow
beam, but a sufficiently wide light front so that at least part of this front
reaches the reflector and returns back to the receiver located next to the
light source. Indeed, the relative motion of the measuring system in an
isotropic reference frame can lead to a deviation of a narrow light beam from
the direction of the moving reflector and to signal loss in the receiver.
A change in
the speed of light near massive bodies should be considered as an apparent
effect, similar to the apparent (not real) reduction in body size in the
direction of its movement. Other apparent effects include a length contraction in gravitational
field for the coordinate observer and transformation of a moving sphere into a
Heaviside ellipsoid according to the special theory of relativity.
In the model
of electrogravitational vacuum, ordinary photons are formed from fluxes of
relativistic praons under action of strong fields near elementary particles. In
this case, the speed of the photons should be less than the speed of motion of
the praons, since the photons not only move in a straight line, but also
rotate. Upon transition to the underlying level of matter of graons, it becomes
clear that the speeds of relativistic graons are higher than the speeds of
praons, and photons consisting of graons move faster than ordinary photons, as
can be seen from the increase in the Lorentz factor. The speeds of all these
particles do not exceed the speed of light. In particular, if is Lorentz factor of a relativistic particle,
then the speed of this particle is
.
It turns out that the speed of light is the limit value for the speed of
motion of relativistic vacuum particles, including photons at all levels of
matter. In this sense, the speed of light becomes a fundamental quantity. Based
on the fact that gravitational waves are waves of graviton fluxes in the form
of praons, and photons are composed of praons and move slower than praons, the
propagation speed of the gravitational signal can slightly exceed the speed of electromagnetic
signal.
Spaceship Engine
Fig.1. A
spacecraft engine using energy of electrogravitational vacuum. The figure shows
a section of the engine's working chamber in the form of a truncated cone. The
quantity is
the thickness of the cone walls, the angle
denotes
the cone opening angle, the electric field
is
directed along the OZ axis, the magnetic field
is
directed against the OX axis, the thrust force
accelerates
the engine along the OY axis of coordinate system. The dashed line shows
trajectory of a positively charged vacuum particle,
specifies
the length of the particle's path in the cone wall.
Based on the
idea of electrogravitational vacuum, taking into account the previously
discovered physical properties of vacuum particles and the way they interact
with charged matter, [2] [5] it becomes
possible to explain operating principle of an engine that uses vacuum
energy. [24] The working fluid in such engine is the
fluxes of relativistic vacuum particles that penetrate the engine from all
sides. Under action of electric and magnetic fields directed perpendicular to
each other, the Lorentz force arises, and the charged particles of vacuum
change their trajectories in working chamber of the engine. The shape of the
working chamber is a cone truncated on both sides. The ratio of amplitudes of
electric field strength and magnetic field induction in the working chamber can
be selected in such a way that some of vacuum particles will pass through the
open ends of cone without interacting with substance of the cone walls. Another
part of vacuum particles, passing along the axis of the cone from the opposite
side of the cone, will be deflected by the Lorentz force from this axis and
will therefore be able to pass through the walls of the cone. As a result of
interaction of the vacuum particles with electric charges in substance of the
walls, some particles will transfer their momentum to the substance. Thus, the
engine as a whole receives a momentum, due to which the thrust force of the
engine arises. The calculation makes it possible to determine the minimum
thrust force of
the engine in the case when one electric charge equal in magnitude to elementary
electric charge appears on the path of vacuum particles in substance of the
walls of working chamber. For the value
the
obtained value is 724 N, which is comparable with the minimum thrust force of
1390 N in the engine described in the article. [25]
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