Shanahan, Daniel (2023) Protogravity: a quantum-theoretic precursor to gravity. Spacetime Conference 2022. pp. 153-181.
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As a consequence of the twin effect - the slower aging of the twin who makes a return trip compared with that of her brother who stays at home - an orbiting mass has a reduced proper time and thus a binding energy. Referring to this binding effect as protogravity, I argue that it was sufficient in itself to explain the preference of matter for bound rather than free motion in the early universe. I then show, from a consideration of the constraints imposed by laws of conservation and the principle of relativity, that this protogravity is also able to explain the important Schwarzschild metric, and thus the effects of gravity so far as these can be determined with accuracy from the Earth. I argue therefore that gravity need not involve a constraining geometry or other extraneous force or effect, but is adequately explained as an emergent consequence of the manner in which elementary particles adapt to a change of inertial frame. Because the twin effect may be explained from the evolution of phase described by the de Broglie wave, this interpretation of gravity would provide gravity and quantum mechanics with a common origin in the wave-like nature of the elementary particles.
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| Keywords: | emergent gravity; the twin effect; Schwarzschild metric; relativity of simultaneity; de Broglie wave; principle of relativity | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Mr Daniel Shanahan | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2023 12:28 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2023 12:28 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21898 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Spacetime Conference 2022 | ||||||
| Publisher: | Minkowski Institute Press | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 9 March 2023 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 153-181 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21898 |
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