Lecture series
Vector Theory of Gravity: flat Universe without black holes and
solution of dark energy problem
Anatoly Svidzinsky
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Description of the Lecture series:
The two lecture series will consist of 10 one-hours lectures that will be given on 5 consecutive days. In the first lecture series, the lecturer will review derivation of the Classical Electrodynamics and General Relativity from the first principles to show how physical theories are constructed. Then he will formulate postulates of the vector theory of gravity and show how to derive gravitational field equations based on these postulates. In the second lecture series, he will present solution of the gravitational field equations for various problems, namely, static gravitational field, neutron stars, radiation of gravitational waves, and cosmology, and discuss the nature of dark energy and the content of the Universe according to Vector Gravity. Finally, he will address supermassive objects at galactic centers and their connection to the Dark Matter problem.
Schedule
series 1 flat Universe without black holes
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2016.12.05 (Mon.) Room: N902 |
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Lecture 1 (09:00~10:00) |
Special theory of relativity |
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Lecture 2 (10:10~11:10) |
Classical electrodynamics and Quantum electrodynamics |
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Lecture 3 (09:00~10:00) |
Gravitational waves |
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Lecture 4 (10:10~11:10) |
Gravitational field and Postulates of the vector theory of gravity |
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2016.12.07 (Wed.) Room: N902 |
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Lecture5 (09:00~10:00) |
Derivation of equations for gravitational field |
series 2 solution of dark energy problem
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2016.12.07 (Wed.) Room: N902 |
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Lecture 1 (10:10~11:10) |
Dark Energy problem |
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2016.12.08 (Thu.) Room: N902 |
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Lecture 2 (09:00~10:00) |
Solution of the gravitational field equations |
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Lecture3 (10:10~11:10) |
Content of the Universe, Mechanism of matter generation at the Big Bang |
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2016.12.09 (Fri.) Room: N902 |
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Lecture 4 (09:00~10:00) |
Neutron stars, Radiation of gravitational waves |
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Lecture 5(10:10~11:10) |
Supermassive objects at Galactic centers and Dark matter problem |
The speaker will first introduce the classical theory of gravity according to Albert Einstein, and then present an alternative vector theory, which assumes that the background geometry of the Universe is a fixed four dimensional Euclidean space and gravity is a vector field 𝐴𝐴𝑘𝑘 in this space which breaks the Euclidean symmetry. Direction of 𝐴𝐴𝑘𝑘 gives the time coordinate, while perpendicular directions are spatial coordinates. Vector gravitational field is coupled to matter universally and minimally through the equivalent metric 𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑖𝑘𝑘 which is a functional of 𝐴𝐴𝑘𝑘. Such assumptions yield a unique theory of gravity, which turns out to be free of black holes but also passes all available tests. For cosmology, Vector Gravity predicts the same evolution of the Universe as General Relativity with cosmological constant and zero spatial curvature. However, Vector Gravity provides an explanation of the dark energy as the energy of gravitational field induced by the Universe expansion and yields, with no free parameters, the value of ΩΛ = 2/3 ≈ 0.67 which (largely) agrees with the recent Planck result ΩΛ = 0.686 ± 0.02. Such a striking agreement with cosmological data lends a strong support that gravity has a vector, rather than tensor, origin.
About the Lecturer:
Anatoly Svidzinsky is Research Associate Professor at Department of Physics &Astronomy, Texas A&M University. He received two Ph.D. degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1997 and Stanford University in 2001. His research interests in theoretical physics include quantum optics, Bose-Einstein condensation, superconductivity, chemical physics and astrophysics. He is known for his work on collective, nonlocal and virtual effects in emission of atomic ensembles; development of novel coherent sources of radiation; pioneering work on dynamics of superfluid vortices; Bose-Einstein condensate statistics; prediction of novel magnetic, thermal and transport properties of high temperature superconductors; development of description of chemical bond based on Dimensional scaling analysis; prediction of a new mechanism of neutron star radiation produced by superfluid core and invention of an alternative vector theory of gravity. He is an author of about 100 research papers and co-organizer of 8 scientific conferences.
