Optical gravity in a graviton spacetime

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel model where gravitons form a medium linking all masses, and energy loss from redshifted gravitons contributes to gravity, offering a new perspective on gravitational interaction and cosmology.

Contribution

It introduces a graviton-based optical medium analogy where energy transfer from redshifted gravitons explains gravity, integrating quantum coherence and cosmological effects.

Findings

Gravitons form a coherent medium linking masses.

Redshifted gravitons transfer energy to particles, generating gravity.

Model's gravity magnitude aligns with observed gravitational strength.

Abstract

While the Hubble redshift is generally linked to expansion of spacetime, an open question concerns where the energy lost from redshifted photons, gravitons and gravitational waves goes. One possibility is that it gives rise to gravity. In the optical-mechanical analogy in general relativity, relativistic light deflection is treated as refraction in an optical medium of varying density gradient. We now model the optical medium analogue of spacetime as a real graviton conjugate interlinking all masses. Gravitons in local mass systems are assumed to be organized in coherent quantum states overlapping with those of particles within spacetime structures. With the Hubble redshift, however, gravitons acquire longer wavelengths as they are shifted to less coherent states. Assuming that the momentum and energy lost from gravitons is transferrable to particles, mutual screening by masses then gives rise to an attractive force with a magnitude consistent with gravity. Some possible cosmological implications of the model are discussed.