GRAVITATION AS A CASIMIR EFFECT

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09045388zbMATH Open1170.83386arXiv0804.3054OpenAlexW2055330791MaRDI QIDQ3397940FDOQ3397940

Authors: Bo E. Sernelius 

Publication date: 25 September 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gravitation is considered to be one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. However, one has so far failed to observe the graviton, the quantum particle that is believed to transmit the gravitational force at a distance - the analogue to the photon in electromagnetism. Maybe it is now time to re-evaluate the status of the gravitation as a fundamental interaction. Here, we propose a completely new interpretation of gravitation. In this description the gravitational force is no longer a fundamental force. It is an induced force, a dispersion force, and the analogue to the Casimir force in electromagnetism. The fundamental force is in our description a force between particles with a parabolic interaction potential. In our model the nucleons are made up from these particles. We find the retarded dispersion force between these composite particles has the correct distance dependence, 1/r. If this interpretation is correct it has a broad range of implications. Our view on the fundamental concept mass is altered; our view on the expansion of the Universe may change.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3054

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zbMATH Keywords

gravityCasimir effecthypothetical particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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