2008/10/19 by Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic, Hajdukovic, Dragan Slavkov
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.3435
Improved version (submitted to International Journal of Theoretical Physics)presenting a radically new idea that dark matter and dark energy are not new, unknown forms of matter-energy but an effect of complex interaction between the quantum vacuum and known baryonic matter, under assumption that there is gravitational repulsion between particles and antiparticles
openalex publication_date 2008/10/19 · arxiv created 2009/10/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We suggest that the eventual gravitational repulsion between matter and antimatter may be a key for understanding of the nature of dark matter and dark energy. If there is gravitational repulsion, virtual particle-antiparticle pairs in the vacuum, may be considered as gravitational dipoles. We use a simple toy model to reveal a first indication that the gravitational polarization of such a vacuum, caused by baryonic matter in a Galaxy, may produce the same effect as supposed existence of dark matter. In addition, we argue that cancellation of gravitational charges in virtual particle-antiparticle pairs, may be a basis for a solution of the cosmological constant problem and identification of dark energy with vacuum energy. Hence, it may be that dark matter and dark energy are not new, unknown forms of matter-energy but an effect of complex interaction between quantum vacuum and known baryonic matter.