The rotation problem

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Publication:776767

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02696-WzbMATH Open1443.83021arXiv1710.07720OpenAlexW3103803352MaRDI QIDQ776767FDOQ776767


Authors: R. Michael Jones Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 July 2020

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any reasonable form of quantum gravity can explain (by phase interference) why on a large scale, inertial frames seem not to rotate relative to the average matter distribution in the universe without the need for absolute space, finely tuned initial conditions, or without giving up independent degrees of freedom for the gravitational field. A simple saddlepoint approximation to a path-integral calculation for a perfect fluid cosmology shows that only cosmologies with an average present relative rotation rate smaller than about TH2approx1071 radians per year could contribute significantly to a measurement of relative rotation rate in our universe, where Tapprox1051 years is the Planck time and Happrox1010 yr1 is the present value of the Hubble parameter. A more detailed calculation (taking into account that with vorticity, flow lines are not normal to surfaces of constant global time, and approximating the action to second order in the mean square vorticity) shows that the saddlepoint at zero vorticity is isolated and that only cosmologies with an average present relative rotation rate smaller than about TH2a11/2approx1073 radians per year could contribute significantly to a measurement of relative rotation rate in our universe, where a1approx104 is the value of the cosmological scale factor at the time when matter became more significant than radiation in the cosmological expansion. This is consistent with measurements indicating a present relative rotation rate less than about 1020 radians per year. The observed lack of relative rotation may be evidence for the existence of quantum gravity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07720




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