2010/08/25 by Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10509-010-0467-y
published as Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 330, Issue 2, pp.207-209; December 2010
openalex publication_date 2010/08/25 · arxiv published 2010/09/17 · arxiv created 2011/02/08 · arxiv updated 2011/02/09 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
We argue that the so-called "Pioneer Anomaly" is related to the quantum vacuum fluctuations. Our approach is based on the hypothesis of the gravitational repulsion between matter and antimatter, what allows considering, the virtual particle-antiparticle pairs in the physical vacuum, as gravitational dipoles. Our simplified calculations indicate that the anomalous deceleration of the Pioneer spacecrafts could be a consequence of the vacuum polarization in the gravitational field of the Sun. At the large distances, the vacuum polarization by baryonic matter could mimic dark matter what opens possibility that dark matter do not exist, as advocated by the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND).