On a New Non-Geometric Element in Gravity

TL;DR

This paper introduces a generalized concept of quantum clocks based on flavor oscillations, revealing non-geometric contributions to gravitational redshift caused by spin orientations in rotating gravitational fields.

Contribution

It presents a novel generalization of flavor-oscillation clocks that accounts for spin orientation effects in gravitational redshift, highlighting non-geometric quantum contributions.

Findings

Quantum clocks with different spin orientations do not always redshift identically.

Non-geometric effects can be interpreted as quantum fluctuations over space-time.

Redshift variations depend on the rotation of the gravitational source.

Abstract

In this essay a generalized notion of flavor-oscillation clocks is introduced. The generalization contains the element that various superimposed mass eigenstates may have different relative orientation of the component of their spin with respect to the rotational axis of the the gravitational source. It is found that these quantum mechanical clocks do not always redshift identically when moved from the gravitational environment of a non-rotating source to the field of a rotating source. The non-geometric contributions to the redshifts may be interpreted as quantum mechanically induced fluctuations over a geometric structure of space-time.