The Heisenberg limit at cosmological scales

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Abstract: For an observation time {equal to} the universe age, the Heisenberg principle fixes the value of the smallest measurable mass at mmH=1.35imes10−69 kg and prevents to probe the masslessness for any particle using a balance. The corresponding reduced Compton length to mmH is lambdabarmH, and represents the length limit beyond which masslessness cannot be proved using a metre ruler. In turns, lambdabarmH is equated to the luminosity distance dmH which corresponds to a red shift zmH. When using the Concordance-Model parameters, we get dmH=8.4 Gpc and zmH=1.3. Remarkably, dmH falls quite short to the radius of the {it observable} universe. According to this result, tensions in cosmological parameters could be nothing else but due to comparing data inside and beyond zmH. Finally, in terms of quantum quantities, the expansion constant H0 reveals to be one order of magnitude above the smallest measurable energy, divided by the Planck constant












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