Dark Energy Paradigm

The Mysterious Universe

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This book offers a compelling and philosophical exploration of the physical origins of inflation in the universe, grounded in the dimensional analysis of quantum mechanics and general relativity models. It posits that vacuum fluctuations drive inflation, presenting original ideas built upon the author’s previous work. In the late 1990s, the author introduced the concept of dark energy and an accelerating universe, which was promptly confirmed by the observations of Perlmutter, Kirschner, and Riess. The discovery of dark energy has led to several new paradigms, including the intriguing notion that spacetime is discrete, resembling a Cantor set.Additionally, the book provides the important insight that special relativity is founded on quantum mechanical amplitudes, rather than classical mechanics. Furthermore, the book delves into the noncommutative nature of spacetime. It investigates the potential existence of a fifth force, a new force, over and above the four well-known forces, supported by the experimental evidence that is analyzed and discussed.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-03
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt277 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor162
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9789819637447

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B. G. Sidharth is the founding Director of the B.M. Birla Science Center in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Earlier he served as a Professor of Mathematics at St. Xavier’s University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. During his tenure at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, he collaborated with Prof. Abdus Salam, maintaining their professional relationship until Salam’s passing. He also served as Visiting Professor at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, working alongside Prof. Walter Greiner. Sidharth’s longstanding association with ICTP Trieste involved a significant collaboration with Prof. Luciano Fonda on quantum scattering until the mid-1990s.In 1995, Sidharth proposed the existence of one-dimensional and two-dimensional structures, and then the existence of nanotubes and graphene was established with graphene itself being discovered in 2005. In 1997, he introduced his model of dark energy and an ever-accelerating universe.