Gravitational Stability For A Vacuum Cosmic Space Crystalline Model
Gravitational Stability For A Vacuum Cosmic Space Crystalline Model
Gravitational Stability For A Vacuum Cosmic Space Crystalline Model
times the
energy of the crystalline structure of vacuum space inside the present Universe volume. The
same process of quantum gravitational stabilization of such crystalline structure occurs
everywhere (by pairs of cells of similar sizes under the action of tension-compression
gravitational stresses very near to mechanic-gravitational equilibrium) in the infinite cosmic
vacuum space.
Key Words: Big Bang Theory; Cosmology; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation,
Gravitational stability, Heisenbergs uncertainty principle.
1. Introduction
Here a brief review about two inter related subjects, who are fundamental for our research will be
presented: The first one refers to theoretical relevance of the concept of cosmic space as deduced
from a proposal of Heisenberg (Heisenberg, 1958) of a natural system of units of measurement
based on universal constants. The second one refers to the concept of cosmos as defined by Carl
Sagan and its deepest implications.
The modern concept of a physical quantity in science follows that of Maxwell, where every
expression of a quantity consists of two factors or components. One is the chosen standard
quantity technically called the unit, and the other is the number of units required to make up the
physical quantity (Maxwell, 1954, originally in 1891). From this conceptual scheme two different
lines have been developed. One, the most important from a practical point of view, attends to the
necessity to provide the basic units for measurements used in science, technology and everyday
life (Flowers, 2001). The other line is devoted to the philosophical search for a deeper foundation
of physical constant; see for instance works due to Maxwell (Maxwell, 1954), Planck [Kuhn
1989] and Heisenberg (Heisenberg, 1958).
Heisenbergs proposal of a natural system of units of measurement based on universal constants
is a very interesting one, and is justified as follows (Heisenberg, 1958): The universal constants
determine the scale of nature, the characteristic quantities that cannot be reducing to other
quantities. One needs at least three fundamental units for a complete set of units. A unit of length,
one of time and one of mass is sufficient to form a complete set. The theory of relativity is
connected with a universal constant in nature, the velocity of light,
c. The quantum theory is
connected with another universal constant of nature, Plancks quantum of action,
h. There must
exist a third universal constant in nature, this is obvious for purely dimensional reasons. An only
a theory which contains this third unit (constant) can possibly determine the masses and other
properties of the elementary particles. Judging from our present knowledge of these particles the
most appropriate way for introducing the third universal constant would be the assumption of a
universal length the value of which should be roughly
10
13
cm, that is some smaller than the
radii of light nuclei. When from such three units one forms an expression which in its dimensions
corresponds to a mass, its value has the order of magnitude of the masses of the elementary
particles. Following Heisenbergs proposal, it is possible to consider that some new physical
result obtained in a previous paper (Montemayor Aldrete, 2005) requires further analysis. In
particular the possibility that vacuum cosmic space could have a crystalline structure, with a
lattice parameter
(
r
N
similar to neutron radius) where
is the present Universe radius (Bielewicz & Banday 2011), deserves a careful
exploration.
Accordingly to Carl Sagan (Sagan, 1980) The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
Obviously, the Sagan definition implies the energy conservation of all that is or ever was or ever
will be. Related to this idea are the seminal works due to Hoyle 1948 (Hoyle, 1993, 1994, 1995).
Within such way of thinking there are also the works due to Joseph (Joseph, 2010 a, b). However
the appealing features of the models due to Hoyle and Joseph, our analysis take into account
their basic considerations in the following way: We start by considering the Sagan enunciation
of Cosmos, and specifically we consider as a model that the basic component of the cosmos is: A
quantum vacuum space with crystalline structure (the lowest energy per unit volume) which
have a lattice parameter of about the size of neutron in absence of gravitational stresses
(Montemayor Aldrete et al. 2005). In a local way such crystal is subjected to little gravitational,
quantum, electromagnetic and so on fluctuations around their equilibrium values. As considered
by Hoyle, Sagan and Joseph the energy of such cosmos is conserved and extends to infinite in
every spatial direction, and exist with no time limitations in the past or in the future. Under the
action of little fluctuations such crystalline vacuum cosmic space has a Euclidean nature, at long
range.
From our point of view our physical analysis requires the study of compatibility conditions
between the General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory when we apply it to the
crystalline vacuum cosmic space model. This is because a theory, which physically describes the
metric of cosmic space and its evolution, and a quantum theory that allows determining the
masses of elementary particles (neutrons) existing in such metric, are simultaneously required to
analyze such problem.
The main purpose of this paper is to study the immediate implications about the gravitational
stability of a model that considers that the vacuum cosmic space has a crystalline structure with a
lattice parameter of the order of the neutron radius.
times bigger than de actual matter content of the Universe (
baryons). Considering
that the granular structure or lattice parameter of vacuum space without gravitational deformation
is about the neutron radius evidently the energy density of such vacuum space is a minimum for a
crystalline structure. According to Einsteins gravitational theory, applied to this crystalline
structure there is a gravitational attraction between such energy packages, very similar to
neutrons, which physically form the crystalline space, and also there appears an interaction
between them due to crystalline lattice deformation. These phenomena lead to a gravitational
instability of such vacuum cosmic space, which will be treated by using the uncertainty principle
due to Heisenbergs, in their form of time-energy uncertainty. Before that, let us to make a brief
mention about some related issues like: some principles of General Relativity in connection to
vacuum cosmic space, the vacuum cosmic space itself, and later the different conceptual ways
used to apply the Time-energy uncertainty principle.
According to Puthoff (Puthoff, 2002): The principles of General Relativity (GR) are generally
presented in terms of tensor formulations in curved space-time. Such an approach captures in a
concise and elegant way the interaction between masses, and their consequent motion. In a more
elegant way Wheeler states that in General Relativity, gravity is not a force but a deformation of
space Matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter how to move., (Wheeler, 1973).
As a result, in principle, Newtons law of gravitational attraction to a central mass is therefore
interpreted in terms of the space-time structure as expressed in terms of the metric tensor
coefficients. However according to our analysis, the maximum average deformation of our
crystalline space model due to gravitational instabilities controlled by a quantum- gravitational
fluctuation is about
,
provided that
R
OU
is the radius associated to the most usual value for the Universe age: 13,750
million years (Shuang Wang, Xiao-Dong Li & Miao Li, 2010). Einsteins gravitational theory
states that such physical arrangement is unstable under the action of long-range gravitational
stresses. In such scheme, when in a region of volume equal to the actual size of our universe a
compression stresses occur because gravitational attraction between the lattice points, in their
immediate neighboring region of equal size a tension gravitational stresses occur; in such a way
that the average gravitational stress of the two contiguous regions is zero. Other physical
implication of such coupling between contiguous gravitational stresses zones will be treated
elsewhere. We can restore the equilibrium or stability of this system around average gravitational
stresses with zero value by using Heisenbergs uncertainty principle. Each of the
N
CVS
entities
inside
V
OU
behaves as a linear harmonic oscillator. In general we have
3N
CVS
degrees of freedom
in this system for vibration modes (Landau, 1963), but due to the radial symmetry of the
gravitation interaction we have only
N
CVS
degrees of freedom, which correspond to
CVS
N 3 linear
one dimensional harmonic oscillators. Each of the
N
CVS
physical lattice points of the crystalline
vacuum cosmic space inside the volume
V
OU
, contributes with a stabilization energy
Ac
OU
against gravitational forces, given by
(3)
where
At
OU
R
OU
/c, is the time that gravitational waves require to traverse the Universes
radius
R
OU
. Thus, Eq. (3) can be written as
(4)
Now by using the relation c = v and defining
\
|
=
k
hc
T
The
N
CVS
gravitational waves quanta required to stabilize the crystalline structure of vacuum
space in a volume
3
3
4
OU OU
R V t = , lead to an adiabatic compression process due to the
gravitational attraction effect between them. According to Peebles (Peebles 1993) during an
adiabatic expansion of gravitational waves, the fractional change in the frequency
Av
v
and the
fractional change in the radius
Ar
r
of the volume enclosing the gravitational waves, are related
through
Av
v
=
Ar
r
(10)
The same expression applies to the adiabatic gravitational compression process derived by their
own gravitational attraction.
On the other hand, for an isentropic process of expansion by electromagnetic radiation (Garcia,
1998), we have
(11) constant
3
= V T
where
V is the cavity containing the electromagnetic radiation. For an spherical cavity or radius
r,
0
constant c Tr = . So,
(12)
2
0
dT
T
c
dr =
From Eq. (10) and Eq. (12),
T
dT d
=
v
v
. Integrating this expression, gives,
(13) constant
2
c T =
Applying for
T
OU
, becomes
T
OU
OU
=c
2
, then by comparing with Eq. (7) a value for
c
2
, is
obtained
k
hc
c >
2
. So, in general,
(14)
k
hc
T >
Or equivalently,
(15)
k
h T
>
v
Eq. (14) is a generalization of Eq. (7).
But Eq. (14) appears in a new physical-geometrical aspect by considering the De Broglie
equations and its geometrical meaning; if we use the relation
n(r) =2tr into Eq. (14) the
gravitational waves temperature is then given by the following expression:
( ) (16)
2 r
n
k
hc
r T
t
|
.
|
\
|
>
If this equation is applied for
r = R
OU
and for
r = r it is clear that the following equation is
obtained,
T(r)r =T
OU
R
OU
(17)
or
T(r)
T
OU
=
R
OU
r
(18)
During the adiabatic gravitational wave compression process, the total energy
of the
N
CVS
gravitational quanta required to stabilise the CVCS of volume
V
OU
=
4
3
tR
OU
3
remains constant. Due to Energy conservation the energy densities of these
gravitational waves,
U, are related through the expression
U
OU
R =U
U
r ( )r
3
.
Or, equivalently
(19)
which combined with Eq. (18) gives
T(r)
T
OU
=
U
U
(r)
U
OU
(20)
Eq. (20) resembles an equation previously obtained by Gamow. According to Penzias [Penzias
1977]: once pair production has ceased , the matter density, varies simply as
T
1
T
0
=
L
0
L
1
=
1
0
|
\
|
.
|
1
3
(21)
(Where
T
1
and
T
0
are absolute temperatures,
L
1
and
L
0
are radial distances). If we take T1 and
1 to be the radiation temperature and matter density at the time of deuterium formation (
10
9
K
and
10
5
gcm
3
), we have the relation first used by Gamow to predict the present temperature of
the microwave background from the density of matter.
The resemblance between Eqs. (20) and (21) is evident. However Eq. (20) refers to a physical
situation of an adiabatic process of compression of gravitational waves under their own
interaction; occurring in a previous existing crystalline vacuum cosmic space whereas Eq. (21)
refers to the adiabatic expansion of matter after the Big Bang, during an expansion of cosmic
space. In fact, the physical process which leads to Eq. (20) explains the possibility of the Big
Bang event without cosmic space creation, without singularities, or infinities, as a transformation
process of the fundamental gravitational quanta, mentioned before, into matter quanta.
3. Discussion and Conclusions
3.1. By using Heisenbergs uncertainty principle to deal with collective quantum gravitational
fluctuations it has been shown that the vacuum cosmic space with crystalline structure and
lattice parameter of about the neutron radius could be gravitationally stable. The
crystalline model for such vacuum space has a lattice parameter of the order of the neutron
radius and the volume used to obtain gravitation stability from the collective quantum
fluctuations is about the present Universe volume. Then Heisenbergs uncertainty principle
allows to stabilise not only microscopical systems against electromagnetic or nuclear forces
but also to stabilise macroscopically system against gravitational forces.
3.2. The big bang would have resulted from a previous adiabatic compression process of
gravitational waves. In other words, from the analysis of the adiabatic process of compression
between the gravitational waves, which stabilises the vacuum cosmic space with crystalline
structure, an equation, which describes the relationship between temperature, radial
distance and gravitational wave energy densit y, has been obtained, Eq. (20). Such an
equation is formally equal to the equation used by Gamows team to predict the present
microwave temperature background from the density of matter, Eq. (21). This last equation
has been obtained by Gamow from the General Relativity Theory applied to the big bang
event, in particular arising from the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Equation. But Eq. (20) is also
formally identical to a previous result obtained by Homer Lane in 1869, called by
Chandrasekhar The Lanes Theorem (Chandrasekhar 1939).
In a global way, by using energy conservation, we show that
quantum of
gravitation energy, each one with energy
becomes into
neutrons as required by the Gamow analysis previously mentioned. By using the energy
conservation principle it is possible to show that the diminishing in the gravitational energy of
the crystalline gravitational field during the adiabatic compression of the gravitational waves
from
R
OU
to the radius which envelopes
of the energy per unit volume of the
crystalline vacuum cosmic space, which is compatible with Heisenbergs uncertainty principle.
And on the other hand, in the standard theory of the big bang the vacuum cosmic space is
growing together with the Universe expansion. The Friedman-Robertson-Walker equation obeys
the energy conservation by neglecting the quantum energy arising from the increase of the
vacuum cosmic space volume, which for cosmological volumes is a huge quantity.
3.7. It is clear that in our scheme the only energy which enters in the Einsteins field
equations is due to the long - range quantum fluctuations of the crystalline vacuum cosmic
space in the form of gravitational waves, electromagnetic energy and matter and antimatter.
3.8. This work links a quantum analysis about collective interactions between all the elements of
a macroscopically system with a non-quantum relativistic cosmological model which has an
objective physical reality. In our analysis an objective quantum picture of the crystalline
vacuum cosmic space arising from the long - range interaction between their lattice entities
appears. This conclusion contradicts the Neils Bohr and Stephen Hawking consideration
(among few other) about that there is no objective picture at all, and which considers that:
actually there is nothing out there at the quantum level. Some how, reality emerges only in
relation to the results of measurements made by human beings. Quantum theory, according
to this view, provides merely a calculation procedure and does not attempt to describe the
world as it actually is. Following Penroses (Penrose, 1989) and Barrows analysis (Barrow,
1986) it is clear that both Bohrs and Hawkings analysis mislead the point by confusing
between measurement made by human observers and phys i cal interaction. Physical
interactions, whi ch occur , between any physical entities all the time in all the places of the
Universe governed by Heisenbergs uncertainty principle as has been shown here and in many
other applications do no require the existence of human beings to take place. In other words,
according to our model the physical reality at quantum level as applied to the so-called Universe
does not require the presence of a conscious being to exist. And, it is clear that our universe is
one of an infinite number of coupled local universes and anti-universes which live and die in the
infinite cosmos, continually being recycled as a consequence of a quantum fluctuation of the
infinite crystalline structure of the cosmos to local gravitational instabilities.
3.9. There are many problems which remain to be solved in our theoretical scheme for
instance: the thermo dynamical aspects related to the formation of quantum matter packages,
the evaluation of the cosmological constant implied by our model, the very low entropy value
at the starting of the big bang, the quantum aspects of the formation process of the quantum
matter packages, the relation between the matter and antimatter production coupled to local
tension compression gravitational states, etc. All these problems will be addressed in further
contributions.
Acknowledgements
We want to specially thank Prof. M. Lpez de Haro for many years of deep discussions and
arguments, for his contribution to final shaping of the ideas and for his encouragement not to
give up and unorthodox approach to cosmological problems and also we acknowledge to the
librarian Technician G. Moreno for her stupendous work.
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