This is a speculation I mentioned in a 2012 article on isotropy on arxiv, and in an allometry article also on arxiv (v17) in 2015 and in some earlier versions. Though as yet there is no theory of DE, it seems DE involves isotropic expansion of space everywhere and at all scales. If that expansion results from light increasing the radius of the universe, then the scale is both cosmological (the universe is expanding) and microscopic (photon size). (That relates to a suggestion of Thomas Gold in a 1962 article on the arrow of time that expansion might be due to microscopic effects.) If the background is moving everywhere then could it be the interference pattern exhibited in the two slit experiment is the moving DE background? I analogize this idea to the tension between the geocentric and heliocentric reference frames; the innovation of Aristarchus and Copernicus substituted Earth’s contextual background (Sun) for the Earth as a stationary reference frame. The idea here in relation to the two slit experiment is to switch reference frames, look at the background, not the particles. Is the background moving possible? If it were possible, is there a test to see if that accounts for the observations in the two slit experiment?
Dear Robert,
I would thought DE as the energy/"mass" that is evenly distributed within spacetime. If we consider spacetime as a sphere and the Present Universe as the intersection of this sphere/spacetime and a plane perpendicular to the line that connects the two sphere's poles, then we may have a notion of why Present Universe is "expanding", due to the gravity force that the DE of the magor part of the sphere(spacetime) acts on the moving plane contrary to the DE of minor one.
From this point of view, I could not imagine how this could be related to the double-slit experiment.
Of course not. Dark energy describes the dynamics of spacetime on cosmological scales, the double slit experiment doesn't affect spacetime, or is affected by it in any calculable way.
The way interference experiments can detect the expansion of the Universe is known: https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW170817Hubble/index.php
Dear Robert,
When you write:
The idea here in relation to the two slit experiment is to switch reference frames, look at the background, not the particles. Is the background moving possible? If it were possible, is there a test to see if that accounts for the observations in the two slit experiment?
When you ask that is the background is moving and assuming you are speaking of the spacetime, do you calculate what gravitational variation would be needed for reaching interference waves? How could you see them taking into account even a device as LIGO? This experiment is absolutly forbidden with present technolgoy. On the other hand, clearly Dark energy is involved with the acceleration of the Universe, which could be related with the cosmological constant (pr vacuum energy) or with a scalar field, but in both cases are very far conceptually of the gravitational waves interference that you suggest.
The wave behavior of the electron (double-slit experiment) is induced by the Planck's vacuum: a homogeneous and isotropic distribution of random-phase electromagnetic waves pervading all space. If dark energy is zero-point energy, then there is a fundamental connection between them.
When material particles (massless elementary electrical charges) are taken off, one gets the void. When such particles are taken off from the Maxwell equations, it remains an electromagnetic field moving at the light speed. Therefore, the emptiness is filled with radiation.
Dear Fernando,
Your sentence:
When such particles are taken off from the Maxwell equations, it remains an electromagnetic field moving at the light speed. Therefore, the emptiness is filled with radiation.
is non sense. First, the electromagnetic radiation is not produced putting out the electric charges. And second, the emptiness is not the vacuum which is not also the "void" plus "something"(the Maxwell equations are nothing real and I understand that you are speaking about electromagnetism) without particles.
Dear Daniel
I apologize. I think the way I expressed my idea was not very suitable.
I’m just referring to well-known facts: First, when Maxwell wrote his equations considering a vacuum (no electrical charges, no currents) hi obtained wave equations for the electromagnetic fields, whose phase velocity coincides with the measured light speed. Second, the Planck’s vacuum is solution of the Maxwell equations (WRITEN FOR A VACUUM) with periodical conditions (STOCHASTIC ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY).
Dear Fernando,
OK. Now I think that I understand your answers, although I don't agree with you, you are thinking in the Quantum Mechanics interpreted by de Broglie-Bohm and with its guiding pilot wave interpreted as an electromagnetic zero-point field (quantum fluctuations or stochastic). The main problem is that there is a source of free energy due to the vacuum which is contradictory: vacuum cannot do work by definition. That is pure speculation for the moment!
Dear Daniel,
There's no such thing as a pilot waves guiding a motion; vacuum induced fluctuations allied to the translational motion, on average, constitute the “wave behavior” of quantal particles.
Quantal particles, due to vacuum induced fluctuations (zitterbewegung), don’t follow along predictable paths (trajectories); in true they continually and randomly change of trajectories (untraceability), as implicit in the complex action function inherent in the Schrödinger equation (to be published).
The interaction of quantal particles with the Planck's vacuum is indeed conservative, as implicit in the quantum potential.
I get the Casimir force just calculating the work done by the Planck’s vacuum on the plates. “A Slightly different calculation of the Casimir force”. But I agree with you; the plates were already separate.
For the moment, NASA is speculating the possibility of extracting such “free energy”.
Dear Fernando,
I thought that I had found one explanation of your previous post within the de Broglie-Bohm quantum mechanics, but if this is not then there are many questions to do:
1. You distinguish the phase velocity is equal to the velocity of light. This means for you that Maxwell's vacuum,i.e. aether, is a dispersive medium?
2. Please, could you elaborate a little bit more your sentence? :
Second, the Planck’s vacuum is solution of the Maxwell equations (WRITEN FOR A VACUUM) with periodical conditions (STOCHASTIC ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY).
3. What is Planck's vacuum? How Maxwell equations have them as a solution? What is the stochastic electromagnetic theory?
Thanks.
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