WikiJournal Preprints/An Explanation for Dark Energy from Whittaker Potential Theory
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Abstract
Introduction edit
The classic papers of E. T. Whittaker in 1903 and 1904 provided a general harmonic solution to the wave equation and Laplace equation in three dimensions, showing that both potentials could be analyzed into simple plane waves. Even though no action could be set up, it was important work that foresaw the Aharonov-Bohm effect and could be used to replace Dirac spinors in the Dirac equation (Ruse 1937). This “undulatory theory” could also explain several features of General Relativity. For example, gravitational lensing can be understood as resulting from the preferred direction of the potentials and their mass-proportionality (Titleman 2022). More specifically, a more massive observer would experience more longitudinal waves than only the two experienced by an observer as an electromagnetic wave, yet when observed at the speed of light the number of longitudinal waves would collapse into the orthogonal axis (y-axis). This results from the simple fact that Whittaker’s analysis of the Laplace equation and wave equation is physically less arbitrary than the standard approach. The reduction of six degrees of freedom to two degrees of freedom provides a purely physical reason for the preferred directionality of the wave; an electromagnetic wave must have a preferred direction. The unity of gravity and electromagnetism by this analysis shows that they are mutually orthogonal.
A New Explanation for Dark Energy edit
The new nature of the x, y, z axes permits each to be assigned a free parameter: longitudinal motion in the z is charge-proportional from the perspective of the observer (compressible potentials), number of longitudinal waves is mass-proportional from the perspective of the observer AND folds into the y-axis (static) when observed at high speed, and the x-axis or plane wave axis is related to amplitude, intensity, luminosity and soliton radius.
Due to the dynamic longitudinal motion in the z-axis being additive, Whittaker’s potential theory provides a Newtonian explanation for dark energy - it is merely dynamic light decoupled from static gravity and can only be produced intergalactically. If this is the case, there would be an inverse relation between either the changing background luminosity or intensity of the universe and dark energy. Since the relation is inverse and the intensity of the universe is double that of all predicted stars (Lauer et al., 2022), the relation would be on the order of 2/3.
The cosmological constant in the context of spacetime can be found by implicating intensity in (1). The 3 is the result of the new interpretation of three dimensions or three axes afforded by Whittaker’s undulatory theory. Longitudinal waves are additive in two directions – phase and antiphase z-directions. It is conjectured that black holes produce these longitudinal waves as scalar potentials, providing cosmological coupling, a third additive “direction”, another dynamic component, an important center for the scalar potentials, and a new understanding of waves as vorticity as the interface of plane and spherical rotations. This understanding could replace black hole singularities with vacuum energy interior solutions within a Robertson Walker cosmology.
A Relation to MOND? edit
Additionally, this can perhaps explain the relation of the MOND fitting parameter to dark energy understood as an energy density.
According to the new understanding of the three axes, the mass-proportional, static gravitational y-axis is related to the charge-proportional, dynamic electromagnetic z-axis by squaring. Two directions of dynamism are in the z, but one source of dynamism (black hole growth) is in all directions. Time-static gravity is only in the mass-proportional and thus limited-range observed y-axis. The potentials are non-local in most senses. As such, the dynamism at the interface of the cosmologically coupled z-axis and observed y-axis are related by squaring only within the limited range of nearby matter. Outside of this limited range there is simply dark energy. Squaring must also be used for the cosmological constant in the context of spacetime – where the interface between dynamic z-axis and static y-axis is constantly implied. The MOND fitting parameter can thus be determined by an interaction between gravity purely in the Whittaker sense (limited by the presence of mass) and the cosmological constant in the context of the static-dynamic interactions implied by spacetime. The external field effect is the result of these interactions in conjunction with black hole cosmological coupling.
Conclusion edit
This understanding of Whittaker’s analytical papers in classical physics can provide a new understanding of dark energy as simply purely dynamic longitudinal motion decoupled from static gravity. There would be a relation between dark energy in some sense and either luminosity or intensity. This may also explain the relation between the cosmological constant in the context of spacetime and the MOND fitting parameter.
Ultimately, the gauge used by Whittaker in his 1904 paper to reduce the standard electromagnetic potentials to only two scalar potentials was oversimplified. It can probably be expanded through advances in computation, computational topology, and the Wick rotation which already links statistical mechanics to quantum mechanics and 4d Euclidean space to spacetime. Statistical mechanics and information are almost certainly of central importance. A language of Clifford algebra or the geometry of a Clifford torus can be developed.
References edit
Farrah, Duncan, Kevin S. Croker, Michael Zevin, Gregory Tarlé, Valerio Faraoni, Sara Petty, Jose Afonso et al. "Observational evidence for cosmological coupling of black holes and its implications for an astrophysical source of dark energy." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 944, no. 2 (2023): L31.
Lauer, Tod R., Marc Postman, John R. Spencer, Harold A. Weaver, S. Alan Stern, G. Randall Gladstone, Richard P. Binzel et al. "Anomalous flux in the cosmic optical background detected with new horizons observations." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 927, no. 1 (2022): L8.
Ruse, H. S. "ON WHITTAKER'S ELECTROMAGNETIC ‘SCALAR POTENTIALS’." The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 1 (1937): 148-160.
Titleman, Mark. "Representations and Implications of Papers Written by ET Whittaker in 1903 and 1904." arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08309 (2022).
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