Evidence of a dilatant vacuum

Marco Fedi (1)

1 MIUR - Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca

A formula to exactly calculate vacuum’s viscous force is presented as a modified, nonlinear Stokes’s formula for a shear-thickening vacuum. It is shown that the formula is successful in exactly calculating the anomalous deceleration of the Pioneer probes, therefore challenging the previously accepted explanation of the anomaly from approximated thermal simulations. Moreover, resorting to the formula, the equation of general relativity for perihelia precession (classical test of general relativity) is derived, indicating that perihelia precession is actually due to the presence of a shear-thickening quantum vacuum. When the formula is applied to planetary orbits, it indicates stability over billions of years, making it overall a useful tool for astronomy, astrophysics and aerospace engineering, while it sheds new light on the nature of the physical vacuum and on the phenomenon of relativistic mass increase.

Mots clés: Lorentz factor; Stokes's law; Mercury perihelion; Quantum vacuum; Dilatant vacuum; Pioneer anomaly; shear-thickening; perihelia precession; general relativity; Special relativity theory; Relativistic mass; Nature of light

Domaines: Physique Quantique [quant-ph]; Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

Marco Fedi. Evidence of a dilatant vacuum. 2018. ⟨hal-01648358v5⟩