Gravitation, strong interactions and the Eddington's number
Abstract
Eddington's number, 10 to the 39th power, is noted to arise in the previously unsuspected domain of elastic strong interactions among scalar particles that are nonminimally coupled to gravity. There exists a fundamental state of this system in which the net effect of the constant scalar fields' presence on gravitation is to renormalize the gravitational constant and generate an effective cosmological constant; in this state, the ratio of the minimum value for the strong coupling parameter (a value that still precludes antigravity) is the actually observed value of the strong constant, namely 10 to the -39th.
- Publication:
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Liege International Astrophysical Colloquia
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986LIACo..26..165N
- Keywords:
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- Cosmology;
- Gravitation;
- Strong Interactions (Field Theory);
- Constants;
- Scalars;
- Astrophysics