Characteristic speed
Characteristic speed is a
physical quantity characterizing the average speed of motion of particles
inside a single body or a particle system at rest. The ratio of the
characteristic speeds of similar objects allows us to find the coefficient of
similarity in speeds between different levels of matter in Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter. For the
nucleon form of matter the characteristic speed does not exceed the speed of
light.
Definition
The characteristic speed is estimated by the formula:

where
denotes the absolute value of the total energy
of the body (particle system),
is the body mass.
If we take into account that the mass–energy equivalence is the
principle of proportionality between energy and mass, then the square of the
characteristic speed is the factor that connects these quantities in one
formula:
Due to its definition in terms of energy and
mass, the characteristic speed can differ from the average speed of the
system’s particles, being found in other ways and depending on the mode of
averaging.
Connection with the escape velocity
For a sufficiently large body of uniform density with the radius
, which is
spherical under the action of gravitational force, the absolute value of the
total energy, according to the virial theorem, is equal to the half of the
absolute value of gravitational energy
. It gives
the following expression:

where
is the gravitational constant,
for a uniform ball and increases when the
density at the center of the ball is greater than the average density.
Let us consider now the process, in which the matter from infinity with
zero initial speed is transferred into some space region and is superimposed on
each other, so that in the end the ball under consideration is formed. Suppose
is the current radius of the ball in its
growth,
is the mass of the growing ball as a function
of the current radius,
is the mass density. The work
done on the transfer of the layer with the
mass
from infinity to the growing ball is equal to
the work of the gravitational force or to the product of mass and gravitational
potential of the ball’s surface:
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Therefore, the work
is equal by its absolute value to the doubled
total energy
and the gravitational energy
, so that
the characteristic speed equals:
On the other hand, the product of the
mass
and the gravitational potential is equal to
the kinetic energy of falling of this mass on the ball with the current
mass
. This
gives:
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In view of (1) we also obtain:
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where
indicates the averaged over the ball’s volume
square of the speed. We will take into account now that the speed
actually is the third escape
velocity, required to remove some mass
to infinity from the surface of the ball with the current radius
in the process of the ball’s growth. Then the
characteristic speed of the ball in general represents half of the square root
of the mean square of the third escape velocity, averaged over the entire
volume of the ball.
The characteristic feature of the gravitational field inside the uniform
ball is that the field is directed radially towards the center of the ball.
Besides, at the arbitrary current radius
the field depends only on the mass inside of
this radius, but not on the mass of the outer shell. Consequently, if there
were no outer shell and it did not impede the motion of a test body, the
gravitational acceleration of the test body would equal the centripetal
acceleration, so that the body would rotate around the mass
under the action of gravitation:
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Where
is the orbital rotation speed of the test
body, which is directly proportional to the radius
.
In view of (2) we find:
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The speed
in its meaning is the first escape velocity as
the orbital rotation speed on the current radius
inside the ball. Then the characteristic
speed
of the ball in general is the square root of
the squared first escape velocity, averaged over the volume of the ball, which
is divided by
.
If we take into account the escape velocities only on the ball’s surface
with
, then we
can write for them:

Application
In the theory of Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, the
characteristic speeds of space objects’ particles fall into several distinct
groups, corresponding to different classes. This allows us to almost definitely
refer each object to one of the known classes according to the characteristic
speed of its particles.
Partitioning of space objects into classes can be done with the help of the
similarity coefficients, since between the objects there is similarity of matter levels, and for
the stars there is discreteness of stellar parameters. If we
assume that the coefficient of similarity in velocities is equal to
, then at the
stellar level we have seven characteristic speeds for different classes of
objects: [1]
1.
km/s.
2.
km/s.
3.
km/s.
4.
km/s.
5.
km/s.
6.
km/s.
7.
km/s.
The speed
is equal to the speed of light, and it is
assumed that this is the speed of the particles inside the proton, according to
the substantial proton model, and of
the particles within the hypothetical black holes.
In the speed range from
to
the
neutron stars are located, the range from
to
includes white
dwarfs, and the speeds of particles
of the main
sequence stars are greater than the stellar speed
km/s, but less than the speed
km/s. The characteristic speeds of planets are
not higher than
km/s, otherwise such a planet should be
considered a stellar object.
For comparison, the characteristic speed of the Earth is 4.3 km/s, the
characteristic speed of Jupiter is 23 km/s, the characteristic speed of the Sun
is about 495 km/s.
The characteristic speed of a main sequence star can be expressed in terms
of the stellar speed: ![]()
where
and
are the mass and charge numbers, corresponding
to the star from the point of view of similarity between atoms and stars. In
turn, the stellar speed is determined through the speed of light and the
coefficient of similarity in velocities:
. The
stellar speed is one of the stellar constants, and it
determines the characteristic speed of particles of the main sequence star with
minimum mass.
Large stellar systems, such as galaxies, consist of a number of stars,
moving at quite high speeds around the common center of momentum of one or
another system. Therefore, the characteristic speed for a galaxy is the average
speed of the stars’ motion. For a large number of galaxies, there are
dependences of the speed of the stars’ motion on the distance to the galactic
center, which after averaging show the rotation of certain parts of the galaxy.
If we average the speeds of the stars’ motion over the entire volume of the
galaxy, the resulting average value will be proportional to the characteristic
speed of this galaxy. This is the consequence of the virial theorem, according
to which the absolute value of total energy of a system of particles is equal to
kinetic energy of the particles.
Quantization of
parameters of cosmic systems is manifested at all levels of matter and it
is a typical property of physical systems, which, after the exchange of energy
(exchange of matter), return to their initial state. In this case, the
characteristic speed of the system’s particles can again achieve the previous
equilibrium value. Some physical systems with degenerate relativistic objects
(atoms, neutron stars) achieve a large degree of discreteness and stability, so
that their characteristic speeds change very little. It is known, for example, that
the degree of accuracy of the best atomic clocks coincides with the accuracy of
repetition of pulses, coming from pulsars.
In the space objects, the characteristic speed allows us to estimate the
kinetic energy of the particles’ motion and the internal temperature. From the
point of view of the Le Sage's theory of
gravitation,
gravitational energy of a body and gravitation force are created by fluxes of
gravitons, penetrating all bodies. [2] [3]
However, the fluxes of gravitons create not only the gravitational
pressure, but also they transfer part of their energy
to the particles, so that according to the virial theorem the internal kinetic
(thermal) energy is not less than half of the absolute value of the body’s
gravitational energy. Thus the interior of an
equilibrium space body cannot get colder than a certain value, which depends on
its mass and size, while maintaining the constant characteristic speed of the
body’s particles. The same follows from solution of equations of the acceleration field for the relativistic uniform system, in which
the Lorentz factor, the kinetic energy and the stationary velocity distribution
of particles inside the body are determined.[4] [5]
The speeds
are boundary for the maximum rotation speeds
of the stars’ surfaces, as well as for the average motion speeds of the stars
relative to those stellar systems, in which these stars were formed (the
principle of local stellar speed).
In Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter, analogs of nucleons at the
level of stars are neutron stars, and the characteristic speed of nucleons is
higher than that of stars, approximately 4.3 times. The inverse of this
quantity is the coefficient of similarity in speeds
between these levels of matter. If a neutron
star consists of nucleons, then nucleons consist of similar particles of the
lowest level of matter, called praons, and
praons in turn consist of graons. Between the levels of nucleons and praons and
between the levels of praons and graons, it is also possible to estimate the
similarity coefficients for speeds, which turn out to be close to unity. This
is due to the fact that nucleons inside a neutron star have a Lorentz factor of
about 1.04, but the praons inside the nucleon and the graons inside the praon
have a Lorentz factor of about 1.9.[6]
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External links
§ Characteristic speed in Russian
Source:
http://sergf.ru/hsen.htm