Re: Vacuum Energy Density Crisis

On Dec 18, 1:14 am, "Rev. 11D Meow!" <Ji...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the lay person's perspective...

What if 'Dark Energy' are patches of (nearly) equal 'amounts'
of 'Matter' & 'Anti-Matter' still swirling around in their
locale not having met 'The_Opposite_Matter' in order to
'decide which one wins' in that locale.

And if 'Dark Energy' are patches where that battle
is in process.

Just a thought from one of lay guys down here
below the stratosphere where y'all
understand the maths behind what makes
that approach work.

I just see it in my head.
And, this week, it makes some sense.
Not sure what will pan-out from there.  ::)))- Hide quoted text -

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There could be significant amounts of antimatter out there in
subatomic, stellar or even galactic sized "particles". As long as they
are kept apart, they are very hard to distinguish.

When a matter-particle and an antimatter-particle meet they annihilate
in a burst of gamma ray radiation. In fact electron/positron
annihilation yielding two oppositely directed gamma ray
"photons" (jets?) bears more than a small amount of similarity to
ultra-short stellar scale gamma ray bursts (very narrow jets of matter
traveling at 99.99 c).

Maybe dark energy is related to matter/antimatter interactions, but a
simpler explanation is electromagnetic repulsion between galaxies
which, according to Discrete Scale Relativity (aka the discrete
fractal paradigm), are analogues of positively charged subatomic
nuclei. As gravitational interactions between the galaxies decrease in
strength (due to expansion), the electromagnetic repulsion begins to
play a more important role, and will eventually dominate the expansion
of the metagalaxy.

Some of the great advances in science came from those who started out
on the fringes of the club, e.g., Faraday and Einstein. So do not
worry about being a "layperson". The grand boffins have very much less
of an intellectual advantage than one might imagine. The average
layperson who keeps up with scientific observations probably has a
clearer understanding of nature than many high energy physicists and
most string theorists.

Yours in science
Knecht
www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw


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