Gluons, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravity.

[JohnSSM]

This is speculations, so I need a bit of leeway just to express these thoughts. But don't hold back with ripping it to theoretical pieces, because I need that to erase these thoughts from my mind. Ive done a good amount of research about quantum mechanics and GR, but I dont have enough knowledge to disprove the thoughts I have. Here they are.

In my understanding (which is probably where the issues will be) The gluon field exists as vacuum energy, which is to say, the gluon field is always present, regardless of the amount of matter or energy present. The gluon field is that which supports gluons in their role with QCD, quarks and their role with hadrons. Quarks make up hadrons, and hadrons are a large part of matter. IF the gluon filed is at some energy level when no matter is present, it would seem, as matter enters the gluon field, the gluon field energy must increase to support the quark interactions of mainly, protons and nuetrons. Is it possible for enough matter, to exist within the gluon field, where as the gluon field does not have the energy to support all the quark interactions, and must draw energy to support the gluon field, in those locations, with energy from the gluon field surrounding the matter? This in-flux of gluon field energy into "places" with much matter, would create gravity, compressing the matter into smaller spaces, raising the need for more gluon energy to support those places of highly compressed matter...and in-flux of gluon field energy into these places of compressed matter, which may seem to create gravity (massive or compressed objects, or objects of high energy) is doing so by literally "dragging" along other matter which is caught in that constantly inflowing gluon field energy.

In this perspective, Dark matter represents our lack of understanding about how gravity may seem to increase exponentially, for huge objects, like galaxies. And Dark Energy represents the spread of spacetime in order to gain more gluon filed energy to support the entire system. Which is to say, as the need for more and more gluon field energy is created by the presense of more and more gravitational influence on huge scales, it is on the quantum level of the gluons and the gluon field which must support "more matter in a smaller and smaller area"...SO spacetime expands to get more gluon vacuum energy to keep up with demand, and that demand is only growing and growing as gravity tries to pull it all back together.

I hope anyone understands this, even just to disprove it with some good thoughts and references. Thanks much

[Strange]

In my understanding (which is probably where the issues will be) The gluon field exists as vacuum energy, which is to say, the gluon field is always present, regardless of the amount of matter or energy present.

 

And my understanding (caveats apply!) is that this is true for all fields: the electromagnetic field, the electron field, the quark field(s), and so on.

 

I can't really comment on the main part of your idea. Although, if there were a mechanism like this, don't you think it would hve been considered and taken into account?

 

 

In this perspective, Dark matter represents our lack of understanding about how gravity may seem to increase exponentially, for huge objects, like galaxies.

 

The problem with this is that there have been many attempts to model and explain dark matter as a change in the way gravity works over large scales or with very large masses. None of these, so far, have been able to match what we observe. They are also rather ad-hoc, needing different adjustments for galaxies and galaxy clusters, for example.

 

They also can't explain the other evidence for dark matter (gravitational lensing, large structure formation and so on).

[JohnSSM]

I suppose there is always that lingering notion that we might see something that every other human being has not. Its like trying to love a hooker...If it was worth it, someone would already love the hooker. So yes, I do suspect you are right about the effect I describe being noted by one of the thousands of folks who have made these subjects their life's study. And they have not.

Im still trying to wrap my head around fields at all. Are they simply metaphors for the total amount of particle perturbations? Or does the field spawn the particles? Its the chicken or egg question posed to fields and particles. Which came first? Are they both effects of something else, or are they mutually causative? Or, does one cause the other? Does it become another metaphor like space-time, representing two different aspects of one thing?

The bummer is that this is kinda my theory, so no one else has sought to disprove it and I don't have the ability to disprove it. You present wise evidence, but it's circumstantial at best. I would like to learn about the different theories which proposed how and why gravity might work differently for massive galactic objects, because GR has no results for explaining such an effect. Or, i should day, GR uses dark matter and energy to explain these effects. Ill be much more comfortable to trash my theory as they get closer to proving theirs!

Creating one's own theories is rewarding. So, you may have to distort a few of the puzzle pieces to make them fit, where they probably do not, noting the resistance to make them do so, and that is akin to having a childlike faith. So maybe it's just fun.