Low-energy quantum gravity

TL;DR

This paper proposes a quantum gravity model involving a graviton background that could explain cosmological redshifts without expansion, challenges black hole existence, and links fundamental constants, with potential experimental tests.

Contribution

It introduces a graviton-based quantum gravity mechanism that accounts for redshifts, predicts deviations from standard cosmology, and relates fundamental constants, offering new testable hypotheses.

Findings

Redshift may result from photon-graviton interactions, not universe expansion.

The model predicts a specific relaxation of photon flux affecting supernova data.

The Hubble constant can be derived from graviton interactions, linking it to Newton's constant.

Abstract

If gravitons are super-strong interacting particles and the low-temperature graviton background exists, the basic cosmological conjecture about the Dopplerian nature of redshifts may be false. In this case, a full magnitude of cosmological redshift would be caused by interactions of photons with gravitons. Non-forehead collisions with gravitons will lead to a very specific additional relaxation of any photonic flux. It gives a possibility of another interpretation of supernovae 1a data - without any kinematics. These facts may implicate a necessity to change the standard cosmological paradigm. A quantum mechanism of classical gravity based on an existence of this sea of gravitons is described for the Newtonian limit. This mechanism needs graviton pairing and "an atomic structure" of matter for working it, and leads to the time asymmetry. If the considered quantum mechanism of classical gravity is realized in the nature, then an existence of black holes contradicts to Einstein's equivalence principle. It is shown that in this approach the two fundamental constants - Hubble's and Newton's ones - should be connected between themselves. The theoretical value of the Hubble constant is computed. In this approach, every massive body would be decelerated due to collisions with gravitons that may be connected with the Pioneer 10 anomaly. Some unsolved problems are discussed, so as possibilities to verify some conjectures in laser-based experiments.