Thanks for this post. I have bet 100 euros that there is no such thing as dark matter, that has significant effect on rotation curves of galaxies. Therefore it is specially good to hear such news!
–Jouni 2011/8/12 Mark Iverson <[email protected]>: > Just an FYI: > > CERN physicist Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic has proposed that the illusion of > dark matter may be caused by the gravitational polarization of the quantum > vacuum. > > “We can consider our universe as a union of two mutually interacting > entities,” Hajdukovic said. “The first entity is our ‘normal’ matter (hence > we do not assume the existence of dark matter and dark energy), immersed in > the second entity, the quantum vacuum, considered as a sea of different > kinds of virtual dipoles, including gravitational dipoles.” > > He goes on to explain that the virtual gravitational dipoles in the quantum > vacuum can be gravitationally polarized by the baryonic matter in nearby > massive stars and galaxies. When the virtual dipoles align, they produce an > additional gravitational field that can combine with the gravitational field > produced by stars and galaxies. As such, the gravitationally polarized > quantum vacuum could produce the same “speeding up” effect on the rotational > curves of galaxies as either hypothetical dark matter or a modified law of > gravity. > > Abstract > Assuming that a particle and its antiparticle have the gravitational charge > of the opposite sign, the physical vacuum may be considered as a fluid of > virtual gravitational dipoles. Following this hypothesis, we present the > first indications that dark matter may not exist and that the phenomena for > which it was invoked might be explained by the gravitational polarization of > the quantum vacuum by the known baryonic matter. > > -Mark >
