scholarly journals Quantum Vacuum Energy and the Emergence of Gravity An Essay

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Philip J. Tattersall
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Energy Coupling ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Free Fall Acceleration ◽  
Energy Gradient

Building on the work of others a novel idea is put forward regarding the possible mechanism of gravity as involving energy coupling down the energy gradient of a massive body. Free fall (acceleration) in a gravitational field is explained as arising from an interaction of the modified quantum vacuum energy in the vicinity of matter.

Measurement of free-fall acceleration in a stationary gravitational field

1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Author(s):  
V. V. Gonyaev
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Free Fall Acceleration ◽  
Stationary Gravitational Field

State special primary acceleration measurement standard for gravimetry GET 190-2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
L.F. Vitushkin ◽  
F.F. Karpeshin ◽  
E.P. Krivtsov ◽  
P.P. Krolitsky ◽  
V.V. Nalivaev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Measurement Range ◽  
Measurement Standard ◽  
Acceleration Measurement ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Free Fall Acceleration ◽  
Investigation Methods ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Upper Level

The State special primary acceleration measurement standard for gravimetry (GET 190-2019), its composition, principle of operation and basic metrological characteristics are presented. This standard is on the upper level of reference for free-fall acceleration measurements. Its accuracy and reliability were improved as a result of optimisation of the adjustment procedures for measurement systems and its integration within the upgraded systems, units and modern hardware components. A special attention was given to adjusting the corrections applied to measurement results with respect to procedural, physical and technical limitations. The used investigation methods made it possibled to confirm the measurement range of GET 190-2019 and to determine the contributions of main sources of errors and the total value of these errors. The measurement characteristics and GET 90-2019 were confirmed by the results obtained from measurements of the absolute value of the free fall acceleration at the gravimetrical site “Lomonosov-1” and by their collation with the data of different dates obtained from measurements by high-precision foreign and domestic gravimeters. Topicality of such measurements ensues from the requirements to handle the applied problems that need data on parameters of the Earth gravitational field, to be adequately faced. Geophysics and navigation are the main fields of application for high-precision measurements in this field.

scholarly journals Thermal Casimir effect with general boundary conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda ◽  
L. Santamaría-Sanz ◽  
M. Donaire ◽  
M. Tello-Fraile
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Casimir Effect ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Parallel Plates ◽  
Casimir Forces ◽  
Thermal Correction ◽  
Frequency Independent ◽  
Scalar Quantum

Abstract In this paper we study the system of a scalar quantum field confined between two plane, isotropic, and homogeneous parallel plates at thermal equilibrium. We represent the plates by the most general lossless and frequency-independent boundary conditions that satisfy the conditions of isotropy and homogeneity and are compatible with the unitarity of the quantum field theory. Under these conditions we compute the thermal correction to the quantum vacuum energy as a function of the temperature and the parameters encoding the boundary condition. The latter enables us to obtain similar results for the pressure between plates and the quantum thermal correction to the entropy. We find out that our system is thermodynamically stable for any boundary conditions, and we identify a critical temperature below which certain boundary conditions yield attractive, repulsive, and null Casimir forces.

scholarly journals Interesting Examples of Violation of the Classical Equivalence Principle but Not of the Weak One

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Antonio Accioly ◽  
Wallace Herdy
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Quantum Particles ◽  
Bohr Atom

The equivalence principle (EP) and Schiff’s conjecture are discussed en passant, and the connection between the EP and quantum mechanics is then briefly analyzed. Two semiclassical violations of the classical equivalence principle (CEP) but not of the weak one (WEP), i.e., Greenberger gravitational Bohr atom and the tree-level scattering of different quantum particles by an external weak higher-order gravitational field, are thoroughly investigated afterwards. Next, two quantum examples of systems that agree with the WEP but not with the CEP, namely, COW experiment and free fall in a constant gravitational field of a massive object described by its wave-function Ψ, are discussed in detail. Keeping in mind that, among the four examples focused on in this work only COW experiment is based on an experimental test, some important details related to it are presented as well.

scholarly journals Brownian motion and polarized three-dimensional quantum vacuum

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 Jul-Aug) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Fiscaletti
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Nonlinear Model ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Virtual Particles ◽  
Fundamental Entity

A nonlinear model of Brownian motion is developed in a three-dimensional quantum vacuum defined by a variable quantum vacuum energy density corresponding to processes of creation/annihilation of virtual particles. In this model, the polarization of the quantum vacuum determined by a perturbative fluctuation of the quantum vacuum energy density associated with a fluctuating viscosity, which mimics the action of dark matter, emerges as the fundamental entity which generates the Brownian motion.

Quantum vacuum energy and the masslessness of the photon

1981 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C.W. Davies ◽  
S.D. Unwin
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Quantum Vacuum

scholarly journals A Covariant Canonical Quantization of General Relativity

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Stuart Marongwe
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Evolution Operator ◽  
Canonical Quantization ◽  
Hamiltonian Formulation ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Metric Tensor ◽  
Hamiltonian Density ◽  
Time Evolution Operator

A Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity within the context of the Nexus Paradigm of quantum gravity is presented. We show that the Ricci flow in a compact matter free manifold serves as the Hamiltonian density of the vacuum as well as a time evolution operator for the vacuum energy density. The metric tensor of GR is expressed in terms of the Bloch energy eigenstate functions of the quantum vacuum allowing an interpretation of GR in terms of the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics.

Quantum vacuum energy in a closed universe

1976 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3304-3313 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. H. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Closed Universe ◽  
Quantum Vacuum

scholarly journals Space-Time Curvature Of General Relativity And Energy Density Of A Three-Dimensional Quantum Vacuu

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Fiscaletti ◽  
Amrit Sorli
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Vacuum Condensate ◽  
Interesting Solution ◽  
Variable Energy

AbstractA three-dimensional quantum vacuum condensate is introduced as a fundamental medium from which gravity emerges in a geometro-hydrodynamic limit. In this approach, the curvature of space-time characteristic of general relativity is obtained as a mathematical value of a more fundamental actual variable energy density of quantum vacuum which has a concrete physical meaning. The fluctuations of the quantum vacuum energy density suggest an interesting solution for the dark energy problem.

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