Cosmology without Einstein's assumption that inertial mass produces gravity
Abstract
Giving up Einstein's assumption, implicit in his 1916 field equations, that inertial mass, even in its appearance as energy, is equivalent to active gravitational mass and therefore is a source of gravity allows revising the field equations to a form in which a positive cosmological constant is seen to (mis)represent a uniform negative net mass density of gravitationally attractive and gravitationally repulsive matter. Field equations with both positive and negative active gravitational mass densities of both primordial and continuously created matter, incorporated along with two scalar fields to 'relax the constraints' on the spacetime geometry, yield cosmological solutions that exhibit inflation, deceleration, coasting, acceleration, and a 'big bounce' instead of a 'big bang,' and provide good fits to a Hubble diagram of Type Ia supernovae data. The repulsive matter is identified as the back sides of the 'drainholes' introduced by the author in 1973 as solutions of those same field equations. Drainholes (prototypical examples of 'traversable wormholes') are topological tunnels in space which gravitationally attract on their front, entrance sides, and repel more strongly on their back, exit sides. The front sides serve both as the gravitating cores of the visible, baryonic particles of primordial matter and as the continuously created, invisible particles of the 'dark matter' needed to hold together the large-scale structures seen in the universe; the back sides serve as the misnamed 'dark energy' driving the current acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Formation of cosmic voids, walls, filaments and nodes is attributed to expulsion of drainhole entrances from regions populated by drainhole exits and accumulation of the entrances on boundaries separating those regions.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Pub Date:
- June 2015
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0701012
- Bibcode:
- 2015IJMPD..2450069E
- Keywords:
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- Cosmology;
- inflation;
- acceleration;
- active mass;
- passive mass;
- traversable wormhole;
- 98.80.Jk;
- 98.80.Cq;
- 95.35.+d;
- 95.36.+x;
- Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- Dark matter;
- Dark energy;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- v4: Essential revision and major extension, new title