1. Introduction
In the Introduction
section, a novel view on gravity is presented, based on the variable energy of
dark energy. In the second section, titled Critique of Gravitational
Singularities and of Geometrization of Gravity, the weaknesses of the
gravitational singularity model and the curvature of space model are
highlighted. In the third section, named Mathematics of black holes in
Newtonian physics, the mathematical model of gravity inside a black hole is
presented. The fourth section, named Mini black holes and Schwinger effect,
presents the use of the mathematical model of the variable energy density of
dark energy for the mini black holes and the novel explanation of the Schwinger
effect. The fifth section, named Gravitational singularity, is replaced by the
area of instability of atoms, which presents the final result of this research,
the replacement of gravitational singularities with the area of instability of
atoms (AIA), where matter disintegrates into fresh energy. The sixth section
named Historical overview of gravitational physics, the development of
gravitational models from Newton to the present day is discussed.
A recent
article published in Physical Review Letters suggests, based on astronomical
observation, that in black holes, matter decays into dark energy [
1]. This
discovery requires the revision of black hole physics, which will give a
physical explanation of the decay of matter into dark energy. In this article,
the mass-energy equivalence principle will be extended to dark energy. This
allows us to describe the energy relation of mass between black holes and
diminished energy density of dark energy in the centre of black holes, which
causes atoms to become unstable and decay into elementary particles and further
into dark energy.
The dark energy
model has several similarities with the superfluid quantum space model
[
2], ether model
[
3],
and the quantum vacuum model
[
4] . Ather, superfluid space, quantum vacuum, and
dark energy are different terms that presumably describe the same energy
substrate of space. Dark energy is 67% of the energy of the universe. 28% of
energy represents hypothetical dark matter, and 5% ordinary matter.
Einstein’s idea
that the stellar object curves space is questionable because it was never
explained how matter interacts with universal space and changes its geometry.
In this article, a model is developed where stellar objects diminish the energy
density of dark energy, and this generates gravity. Curvature of space is
replaced by the variable energy density of dark energy. The more curved the
space, the lower the energy density of dark energy.
Dark energy in
intergalactic space can be expressed with Planck units. Planck density
is a Planck
mass in a Planck volume. Multiplying Planck energy by
, we get Planck
Energy Density
, see Eq. (1).
[
4].
In
intergalactic space, the energy density of dark energy is at its maximum
; in the centre
of a black hole, the energy density of dark energy diminishes accordingly to
the mass of a black hole
, see Eq. (2).
where m is the
mass of the black hole and V is its volume. Mass
of a given
stellar object can be expressed by the diminished energy density of dark energy
in its center, see Eq. (3).
where
is the mass of
a black hole,
is the volume
of the black hole, and
is the energy
density of dark energy in the centre of a black hole, black hole
[
5].
Two stellar
objects diminish the energy density of dark energy, and the gravitational force
is a pushing force of the outer area of dark energy towards the area with lower
energy density. French physicist Mayeul Arminjon also suggested in 2011 that
gravity acts as a pressure force of the ether-dark energy-superfluid space [
6], see
Figure 1.
Black holes are
stars with extremely huge masses and extremely dense mass. Diminished energy
density of dark energy in the center of a black hole changes its
electromagnetic properties to the extent that atoms become unstable; they fall
apart into elementary particles, and elementary particles decay into dark
energy. This is the explanation for the astronomical observations presented in
the recent article published in Physical Review Letters
[
1]. Several
astronomical data confirm that black holes are rejuvenating systems of the
universe:
- -
Astrophysical jets out of AGNs are the result of matter transformation into elementary particles in supermassive black holes (SMBH) [
7].
- -
Black holes produce dark energy [
1], which is also the outcome of matter disintegration that occurs in the centre of black holes
2. Critique of Gravitational Singularities and of Geometrization of Gravity
Roger Penrose
predicted that the mass density in the centre of the black hole is infinite
[
8]. The mass
density of the proton is
. In the centre
of a black hole, matter decays into protons. If we imagine that in a cubic
meter of volume there are only protons, then in a cubic meter, there are
of protons. Penrose’s
proposal about infinite mass density at the center of a black hole contradicts
the fact that a proton has a maximum mass density, and a higher mass density
cannot exist. His idea of a black hole where the gravitational force towards
the center increases because the density of matter there is infinite should be
re-examined. It is shown in this article that when going towards the center of
a black hole, the energy density of dark energy diminishes in the same way as
in all other stellar objects. This means that, also, inside black holes,
gravity obeys the Newtonian Shell Theorem. The gravitational force in the
centre of a black hole is zero. There is no gravitational collapse of the black
hole as Penrose predicted. The black hole is eating itself because atoms in its
center become unstable
[
2].
Schwarzschild
metrics suggest that a black hole has a singularity in the center where
physical laws break down. These singularities have been debated for more than
100 years, and no final solution has been found
[
9]. This
article proposes that the Schwarzschild singularity is only a mathematical
model that has no physical existence; the energy density of the dark energy in
the centre of a black hole is so low that atoms become unstable. A black hole
eats itself not because of infinite gravity in the center but because of the
extremely low energy density of the dark energy in its center.
Schwarzschild
radius
of a black
hole marks the area in the black hole, where low energy density of dark energy
causes matter to decay into elementary particles and dark energy, see Eq. (4.)
Transformation
of matter into elementary particles creates in the center of a black hole fresh
energy and enormous pressure. A supernova is the explosion of a black hole.
When a black hole is too big to explode, as is the case with SMBHs, the fresh
energy pressure opens the hole in the direction of the black hole’s axis of
rotation
[
5], see
Figure 2.
Removing the
singularity from black hole physics eliminates all the mysterious aspects of
black holes, which are essentially high-density stars with extremely high mass.
There are no holes in space, because there is no curvature of space, see
section 5.
The
introduction of the singularity into physics, where the laws of physics break
down, is, according to the author, a reckless historical mistake that has led
physics in the wrong direction. A physical model that shows matter decaying
into dark energy in a black hole challenges the physical existence of the
Schwarzschild singularity, which is just a mathematical concept that has led
physics in the wrong direction for more than 100 years. Also, the initial
singularities of the Big Bang cosmology are more a philosophical debate than
real physics. Categorically eliminating the singularity from physics seems to
be the best way to progress black hole physics and cosmology [
10]. The idea
that singularities belong more to philosophy and religion than to physics is
entering mainstream physics: “Perhaps surprisingly, both event horizons and
spacetime singularities are generally considered to be mathematical
idealizations that, while useful approximations to reality, fall short of fully
capturing the underlying physics. Specifically, the teleological nature of
event horizons makes them inherently undetectable in any finite time
experiment. Similarly, spacetime singularities are generally thought to reflect
our incomplete understanding of the behavior of spacetime and matter under
extreme conditions Fundamentally, both concepts hinge on the notion of
infinity: event horizons involve infinite time, while spacetime singularities
correspond to infinite curvature, or equivalently, infinite energy and matter
density. It is generally anticipated that these idealizations will be replaced
by more appropriate concepts as the infinities are resolved into finite
quantities” [
11].
The
geometrization of gravity lacks the empiricism of how matter interacts with
empty space, which has no physical properties, and bends it. It is more than
100 years since GR was born, and nobody has explained in physical terms how
matter bends space. The idea of bending space leads to the gravitational
singularities that we see today are problematic. It is time to turn the page
and find other solutions for gravity. The core problem of the gravitational
singularities is expressed in the so-called “Penrose’s Singularity Conundrum”,
see
Figure 3 below.
We have a black
hole with a gravitational singularity. One light year from the centre of a
black hole, gravity at the point T is finite. How does infinite gravity in the
centre of a black hole diminish into finite gravity at the point T? Where does
the continuous function of infinite gravity jump to the continuous function of
gravity decreasing with the square of the distance? On the first side,
conundrum seems unsolvable simply because gravity we know in physics is a
function of mass that diminishes by the square of distance. Therefore, it would
make sense to eliminate gravitational singularities from physics.
Light bends
when passing near stellar objects because the variable energy density of the
dark energy changes the refractive index of light. When light moves towards the
stellar object, the energy density of dark energy decreases; when light moves
away from the object, the energy density of dark energy increases, causing
light to bend. The angle of light bending based on the variable energy density
of dark energy, see
Figure 4.
Mass m in the
classical equation for light bending can be replaced by the variable energy
density of dark energy, see Eq. (5).
where
is
Planck energy density of dark energy in
intergalactic space =
,
is the
energy density of dark energy in the center of the
Sun,
20
c: Speed of
light, R is Sun’s radius.
According to
Einstein’s General Relativity (1915), gravity causes light to bend near massive
bodies like the Sun, with the bending angle given by
where M is
the Sun’s mass and R is the impact parameter (Sun’s radius). In his equation,
we replaced mass
with the
variable energy density of dark energy. With the Eq. (5) we show that it is not
mass that bends the light, it is the diminished energy density of dark energy
in the centre of the Sun
that changes
the refraction index of light which bends light. Gravitational constant G we
can express with the energy density of dark energy, see Eq. (6):
We combine Eq.
(5) and Eq. (6) and we get:
Velocity of
light we can change with Planck units
Eq. (8)
confirms that the bending of light depends on the volume of the Sun and on the
energy density of dark energy
in the centre
of the Sun. If the Sun had a smaller volume and the same mass, the energy
density of dark energy in the center would be lower, and the bending of light
would be greater
[
12].
Geometrization
of gravity needs rigorous re-examination by the international scientific
community. Insisting on the validity of the idea that curved space carries
gravity which was experimentally never-proven models is the main cause of today’s
gravitational physics stagnation. NASA measured in 2014 that the universal
space has a shape of Euclidean geometry: “Recent measurements (c. 2001) by a
number of ground-based and balloon-based experiments, including MAT/TOCO,
Boomerang, Maxima, and DASI, have shown that the brightest spots are about 1
degree across. Thus, the universe was known to be flat to within about 15%
accuracy prior to the WMAP results. WMAP has confirmed this result with very
high accuracy and precision. We now know (as of 2013) that the universe is flat
with only a 0.4% margin of error. This suggests that the Universe is infinite
in extent; however, since the Universe has a finite age, we can only observe a
finite volume of the Universe”
[
13]. Einstein’s geometrization of gravity has a weak
point, namely, we cannot calculate the gravitational force between two stellar
objects. Even more than 100 years after its creation, it is still unclear what
the units of Einstein’s gravitational tensor are
[
14]. With the
variable energy density of dark energy, we elegantly describe gravitational
force and all relativistic phenomena, including the Pioneer anomaly
[
3]. Keeping the
geometrization of gravity as the leading model of gravity seems unfair and
represents a major obstacle to the development of gravitational physics, which
did not stop with Einstein; its development goes on. Einstein’s gravitational
model, where gravity is the result of the geometry of space, led to the idea
that gravity is not the primordial force of the universe and is related to
entropy
[
15]. The idea that entropy created at the atomic level of a given stellar
object could create a gravitational force is questionable because we know that
gravity exists between atoms [
16,
17,
18]. Atoms have a mass, and every mass diminishes
the energy density of dark energy, which generates gravitational mass of an
atom and consequently gravitational force between two atoms, see
Figure 5.
Gravitational
mass
is a pushing
force of dark energy toward the centre of a physical object. Also, the inertial
mass
is a pushing
force of dark energy toward the centre of a physical object. Einstein
discovered that gravitational and inertial mass are equal; this is because they
have the same origin. Rest mass
is not
inertial mass
. Rest mass
interaction with dark energy generates inertial mass and gravitational mass
[
19], see Eq.
(9).
When a proton
is accelerated in a cyclotron, it interacts with the dark energy and absorbs
it. This increases its mass. Relativistic mass of proton
is a real
phenomenon and has nothing to do with the position of the observer; it is a
pure technicality of proton interaction with dark energy
[
2], see Eg.
(10).
With the
increase in velocity, Lorentz factor γ increases, and the proton’s relativistic
mass also increases. Also, AGNs that rotate around their axis in the centre of
galaxies interact with the dark energy. They absorb dark energy which increases
their relativistic mass, and they rotate local dark energy inside the galaxy,
which causes galaxies’ rotational curves
[
3]. The weak point of the geometrization of gravity
is that no direct energy relation between mass of a given physical object and
curvature of space is mathematically defined. The model of gravity, based on
variable energy density of dark energy, has a mathematically well-defined
relation between the mass of a given physical object with the variable energy
density of the medium of dark energy in which this object exists. This model
works from the scale of an atom to the scale of a supermassive black hole. We
can calculate the energy density of dark energy in a given physical object
center and at any point T at a distance d from the center, see Eq. (11)
[
5].
where
is the energy
density of dark energy at point T,
is the energy
density of dark energy in intergalactic space,
is the mass of
the physical object,
is the radius
of the object, and
is the distance
of point
from the centre
of the physical object. When
tends to the
infinite,
tends to
, see
Figure 6.
By extending
the principle of mass-energy equivalence to dark energy, the curvature of space
is replaced by the variable energy density of dark energy. More space is curved
and the energy density of dark energy. The energy density of dark energy
changes the electromagnetic properties of the local space at the center of the
black hole, making the atoms unstable. In this model, the first law of
thermodynamics at the center of a black hole is preserved, and the mysterious
singular properties of black holes are eliminated.
3. Mathematics of Black Holes in Newtonian Physics
In Newtonian
physics, a black hole is a particular type star with high mass density. Imagine
we have two black holes with the same mass. The first one has radius r and the
second has radius 2r, see
Figure 7.
Gravitational
acceleration g on the surface of a smaller black star is bigger than on the
surface of the bigger black star, see Eq. (12).
The energy
density of dark energy in the center of a smaller star is lower than in the
centre of the bigger star. That’s why gravitational acceleration g on the
surface of a smaller star is bigger than on the surface of a bigger star.
Gravitational acceleration g depends on the difference between the energy
density of dark energy on the surface of the star and in the centre of the
star. We calculate the energy density of dark energy on the surface
and in the
center
of the star
with Eq. (11). Moving towards the centre of the black star, the energy density
of dark energy is decreasing, the difference between energy density at the
given point T
and the centre
is getting
smaller and, consequently, gravitational acceleration is decreasing. In the
centre,
becomes equal
to
, and
gravitational acceleration there is zero. This is the Newton’s shell theorem
inside black stars, expressed by the energy density of dark energy, see
Figure 8
.
At the point T
gravitational acceleration
is calculated
by Eq. (13).
where
is the mass of
the star without outer shell,
is the
gravitational constant,
is the radius
of the mass
,
is the Planck
energy density of dark energy in intergalactic space,
is the energy
density in the centre of the black star, and
is the energy
density of dark energy at the point T. Gravitational acceleration on the
surface is bigger than at the point T because the difference in the energy
density on the surface and in the center is bigger than the difference in the
energy density between the point T and the center, see Eq. (14).
Eq. (13) and
Eq. (14) confirm that the difference of energy density of dark energy and
distance
from the
centre are two parameters that define the magnitude of gravitational
acceleration
.
Imagine there
is a black star with a constant mass. The star is extremely dense and has a
small radius. The difference between the energy density in the centre and on
the surface is extremely high. With the increase of the radius, the difference
of energy density is decreasing, and gravitational acceleration on the surface
is also decreasing, see
Figure 9
.
Figure 9
illustrates the basic dynamics between the
gravitational acceleration of a black star, its radius, and the difference in
energy density of dark energy in the center and on the surface of a black star.
In the model of
dark energy presented in this article, dark energy has no antigravitational
properties. The idea of how dark energy could generate the repulsion force and
cause the accelerated expansion of universal space was never theoretically well
defined: “Dark energy is an unpredicted, fictitious form of energy with
anti-gravitational properties. It is an embodiment of the cosmological constant
Λ, which Einstein introduced as a fudge factor (in the form of an integration
constant) when he still believed that the universe ought to be static. This Λ
was reintroduced in order to make the observed magnitude versus redshift
relation of distant type Ia supernovae compatible with the BB paradigm
[
20]. In the
model described in this article, the variable energy density of dark energy
functions as the carrier of gravity. Dark energy is the energy foundation of
space.
4. Mini Black Holes and Schwinger Effect
When a star is
of the mass bigger than 2,9 mass of the Sun it will collapse into a black hole
[
21]. We will
calculate energy density of dark energy in the centre of such a black star
by the Eq.
(15) taking that star with 2,9 masses of the Sun has a radius of the Sun.
where
Schwarzschild volume
is calculated
with the Sch. Radius of such a black star. We use Eq. (4) and calculate the
Schwarzschild radius of a star with 2,9 masses of the Sun and radius of the
Sun. We get
. We calculate
Schwarzschild volume and we get
. We calculate
the energy density of dark energy in such a black hole, and we get the
following numbers below.
We use the same
Eq. (15) and we calculate the energy density of dark energy in the centre of a
proton, see below.
We see that the
energy density of dark energy at the center of a black hole with 2,9 masses of
the Sun is far lower than the energy density in the center of a proton. The
energy density of dark energy in the centre of a proton is much higher than the
energy density in the center of a black hole with 2,9 masses of the Sun. The
difference is on the scale of
. This confirms
that a proton cannot be a black hole.
In 1971,
Hawking predicted existence of mini black holes: “Since gravitational collapse
it is essentially a classical process, it is probable that black holes could
not form with radii less than the Planck length
~
, the length in
which quantum fluctuations of the metrics are expected to be of order unity. A
Schwarzschild radius of this length would correspond to a mass of about
. For lengths
larger than
it could be a
good approximation to ignore quantum gravitational effects and treat the
metrics classically. One might therefore expect collapsed objects to exist with
masses from
upwards
[
22]. We will
calculate the energy density of a mini black hole with radius of
, and mass
.
The energy
density of dark energy in the centre of such a mini black hole is much lower
than the energy density in the center of a black hole with 2,9 masses of the
Sun. The difference is on the scale of
. This
calculation confirms that, theoretically, Hawking’s mini black hole could
exist. In such a mini black hole, the energy density of dark energy would be at
the scale
which is close
to the absolute absence of dark energy at the scale of
. This opens up
interdisciplinary theoretical speculations about the existence of the absolute
void, including consciousness, which will not be discussed in this article.
More tangible is the idea of the unification of different concepts in physics:
- -
- -
time-invariant superfluid quantum space [
3]
- -
- -
dark energy
- -
electromagnetic vacuum of QED,
where
the electron is a photon with toroidal topology
[
23]. By itself,
the idea arises that the positron could also be a photon with a toroidal
topology, where the photon has the opposite direction of motion to the photon
in the electron. At low energies, the result of the electron–positron collision
is the annihilation of the electron and positron, and the creation of two
energetic photons. This supports the model of the electron as a photon with a
toroidal topology. The idea that photons are conserved in the electrons and
when electrons move to a higher orbit, they emit a photon is outdated. When we
heat the piece of iron for 1000 years, it will radiate photons for 1000 years.
The heated iron heats the electromagnetic vacuum, which gives virtual photons
energy, and they become real photons. Electromagnetic vacuum (superfluid space,
dark energy) is the cosmic reservoir of virtual photons
[
24]. The
presented model offers a plausible explanation of Schwinger’s effect
[
25]. A strong
electric field gives energy to the two virtual photons, which are transformed
into an electron and a positron.
6. Historical Overview of Gravitational Physics
Newton’s
contribution to gravitational physics is the equation for the gravitational
force between two physical objects. In his model, the action of the
gravitational force remains unclear. Einstein attempted to explain how gravity
operates between two physical objects by considering that the curvature of
space generates gravitational force. His model is of a mathematical nature and
does not explain the physical origin of the gravitational force. There have
been several attempts to unify general relativity and quantum physics. In a
recent article, authors explored the relationships between photon, electron,
and graviton, which is believed to carry the gravitational force
[
27]. The idea
that gravitational force is similar to electromagnetic force has persisted in
physics for the past 100 years. However, it has never been theoretically
explained how atoms that comprise stellar objects emit gravitons and how they
receive them. Also, it is not imaginable how a graviton that is halfway from
the Sun to the Earth could keep them together. Gravitational force is carried
by the variable energy density of superfluid space (dark energy, quantum
vacuum, electromagnetic vacuum) and electromagnetism is the excitation of
superfluid space
[
3].
Einstein’s
geometrization of gravity is a step ahead of Newton’s because it is clear that
two physical objects can generate a gravitational force only via the medium in
which they exist. A model of curved space cannot explain how the gravitational
force works. Replacement of the curvature of space with the variable energy
density of dark energy provides the physical model of gravity where
gravitational force is a pushing force of space, see
Figure 1 and
Figure 5. The given mass deforms the space; It reduces the energy density of dark
energy, which creates gravity. The basic idea is the same as in Einstein’s
model; its advantage is that it can explain the physical origin of the
gravitational force. Newtonian gravity, which is based on the ether
[
19], which is
the old name for dark energy, is superior to Einsteinian gravity because it
keeps gravity as a force. Gravity is the fundamental force of the dynamics of
the universe that governs the motion of entire galaxy clusters, including the
local supercluster Laniakea, towards the Great Attractor
[
28,
29]. In
2014, NASA confirmed that universal space has Euclidean shape
[
13]. It is
time, and fair, that the curvature of space as a carrier of gravity is
recognized as a model that belongs to the history of physics.
In 2023, Allain
Haraux presented his research on black hole physics from the perspective of
Newtonian physics
[
30]. The study of black holes in the context of
Newtonian physics without hypothetical singularities has a future because it
clarifies the currently problematic picture of black holes, where in
singularities the laws of physics no longer apply. John Wheeler was criticizing
the singularity of a black hole and suggested it should be replaced by the “fiery
marriage” of general relativity and quantum physics: “General relativity must
fail at the central singularity and be replaced by a “fiery marriage”, as he
called it, of general relativity and quantum physics, by the new laws of
quantum gravity that he, Misner, DeWitt, and others were beginning to seek”
[
31]. It is
shown in this article that when we replace the curvature of space with the
variable energy density of dark energy, the newborn of this “fiery marriage” is
the extension of the mass-energy equivalence principle of a black hole on dark
energy, and understanding that Newton’s Shell Theorem works well inside black
holes, which are stars with extremely high mass density.