The Cosmological Constant: a New Law

[coldcreation]

Originally Posted by coldcreation

I like Einstein's cosmological term better. It's less repulsive.

So here are a few implications (without going into detail), if the cosmological constant is real, i.e., if spacetime has properties that affect the evolution of the large-scale structures of the universe, as gravity is know to do.

1) The universe is stationary, non-expanding, evolving and general relativistic.

2) It appears hyperbolic from the restframe of any observer, and at any time, provided he/she/it lives in an epoch where things are visible in the universe. (This is supported by recent observational data of distant SN Type Ia)

3) There is no boundary condition. The continuum is infinite is all directions and at all times, both past and future.

4) Cosmic microwave background CMB thermal radiation is not a redshifted relic of a hot event some time (t = 0) in the past. It is simply the thermal radiation that baths the entire universe. Its temperature depends on epoch, time t.

5) The CMB is warming with time, not cooling as suspected by the majority of cosmologists.

6) There is no beginning to the universe.

7) There are no other universes, multiverse, or other dimensions.

8) The laws of nature remain intact at all times, in all places and under any condition (high temperature, low temperature, high density etc.)

9) Matter was created otherwise than in a canonical hot big bang type event.

10) Evolution of the large-scale structures is much slower than previously suspected (hundreds of billions of years).

There is substantial evidence to back these claims.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

ColdCreation

[coldcreation]

Lambda equals zero...

The value of lambda remains zero for all time. Because of the non-changing value of lambda it should be elevated to the status of fundamental constant of nature. There is no reason why a fundamental constant of nature should not have a zero value. There are many reasons why this one should.

Others, Einstein included had considered this value for lambda. The difference now is that there can be no other value, i.e., lambda cannot have negative values, nor can it have positive values, by definition.

In coming to this conclusion It became apparent that the definition of lambda was lacking. The elaboration of the physical explanation leads to a new law of nature that had been overlooked, one that essentially describes what is space, and most importantly of all, what is gravity. Indeed, the answers regarding lambda shed light on the mechanism behind the gravitational interaction.

Something has only just begun

Coldcreation

[EWright]

Originally Posted by coldcreation

Lambda equals zero...

The value of lambda remains zero for all time. Because of the non-changing value of lambda it should be elevated to the status of fundamental constant of nature. There is no reason why a fundamental constant of nature should not have a zero value. There are many reasons why this one should.

Others, Einstein included had considered this value for lambda. The difference now is that there can be no other value, i.e., lambda cannot have negative values, nor can it have positive values, by definition.

In coming to this conclusion It became apparent that the definition of lambda was lacking. The elaboration of the physical explanation leads to a new law of nature that had been overlooked, one that essentially describes what is space, and most importantly of all, what is gravity. Indeed, the answers regarding lambda shed light on the mechanism behind the gravitational interaction.

Something has only just begun

Coldcreation

More than a month since you last posted here, with an explanation no one commented further on. So people, what do you think of his idea? CC, I'll bet you my Lambda is bigger than your Lambda

[coldcreation]

Originally Posted by EWright

More than a month since you last posted here, with an explanation no one commented further on. So people, what do you think of his idea? CC, I'll bet you my Lambda is bigger than your Lambda

The questions regarding lambda date back to its origin in the GR equations. They are back again, like this thread, and are not going away. The dark energy claim is unscientific. There is no palpable solution to the cosmological constant problem in sight aside from the one presented here.

Due to the importance of the issue, and to the fundamental nature of the constant itself, a full layout as to how it fits into all branches of physics, generally, needs to be exposed. This is the purpose of returning lambda to the debate table. It is not going away.

There are numerous reasons why lambda can only equal zero. This does not mean that because it is zero that it does not exist, or that because it is zero can be eliminated from Einstein's equations.

Lambda is not big or small, it represents a kind of Minkowski spacetime manifold, upon which, or within which, all events and phenomenon transpire. We are all affected by it since space is ubiquitous. Any deviation from the zero value is simply called gravity, i.e., curved spacetime is a departure from Minkowski spacetime.

The new law of nature attached to lambda is an obvious one. It had been overlooked because space is thought of as nothing. Space is not nothing. Space has very specific qualities. Space is everywhere present. Objects and fields interact with each other inside space. Matter, field, spacetime are thus attached inextricably. There is more...

cc

[EWright]

Originally Posted by coldcreation

There is more...

cc

Then spit it out... I thought your book was finished already. What's up with that?

[Erasmus00]

Originally Posted by coldcreation

The new law of nature attached to lambda is an obvious one. It had been overlooked because space is thought of as nothing. Space is not nothing. Space has very specific qualities. Space is everywhere present. Objects and fields interact with each other inside space. Matter, field, spacetime are thus attached inextricably. There is more...

If the constant is 0, as you claim, then the energy density of vacuum is, in fact, 0. Space is nothing. That lambda is 0 is not a new idea. Only quite recently, in order to explain accelerating expansion has lambda been brought back into the picture as a nonzero entity.
-Will

[coldcreation]

Originally Posted by Erasmus00

If the constant is 0, as you claim, then the energy density of vacuum is, in fact, 0. Space is nothing. T\0\0
?\0\05{\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 not a new idea. Only quite recently, in order to explain accelerating expansion has lambda been brought back into the picture as a nonzero entity.
-Will

If space were nothing, as is often claimed, there would be no polarization of the vacuum, orbits would all be unstable, and no one would be here to write about it. Space obviously has properties that need to be defined. Space cannot be streched endlessly. There is a fundamental limit to the vacuum.

Yes the zero value has been suggested. The most common error is to say the lambda is vacuum energy, especially of the dark, mysterious or kooky kind. The fact is, energy density is omega not lambda. Vacuum energy is zero point energy or ground state energy. The confusion between the two is fueled by physicists themselves, in the attempt to fix the outcome of predictions vs. observations (it has not worked).

To be clear: vacuum energy is vacuum energy, i.e., ZPE, or Casimir energy as it is sometimes dubbed. It is a minimal amount, or irreducible amount of energy that pervades all regions of space. Lambda is something else. Lambda is the space that would otherwise be left over when all that fills space is removed. The cosmological constant represents the pure vacuum state; the 'stage' within which all actors (ZPE, ZPF, gravity, material objects, fields, both electromagnetic and atomic forces) operate.

The difference with this lambda and prior definitions is that the zero value is absolute, in a way similar to the absolute zero of temperatures on the Kelvin scale. It is not like the zero centigrade.

This concept leads to the following statement: Gravity (spacetime curvature) is a departure from flat, Euclidean, special relativistic, field-free, Minkowski space. Lambda describes the empty (flat) space from which gravity is a deviation. In another way, lambda is a state of zero gravity.

The postulate above is simple. When the concept is extended to gravitating systems it explains equilibrium configurations. It explains why the universe is stable against collapse ot expansion. Einstein had been correct in his initial deduction that lambda was needed to stablize the universe, though he never physically explained it.

Gravity and lambda are tightly associated with each other. One with out the other is unthinkable. The implications are profound. There are no negative values for curvature. Lagrange points (especially L1) are where lambda acts (only apparently) as a repulsive force. At L1 gravity equals zero....more to come...

Coldcreation