Speaker
Dragan Hajdukovic
(Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))
Description
We show that if quantum vacuum fluctuations are virtual gravitational dipoles, then the phenomena usually attributed to hypothetical dark matter, may be considered as a consequence of the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum by the immersed baryonic matter; apparently, at least mathematically, the galactic halo of dark matter can be replaced by the halo of the polarized quantum vacuum.The eventual gravitational effects of the quantum vacuum "enriched" with virtual gravitational dipoles, can be revealed by the study of orbits of tiny satellites in trans-Neptunian binaries (for instance UX 25 and Eris-Dysnomia).
Primary author
Dragan Hajdukovic
(Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))
