Quantization State of Baryonic Mass in Clusters of Galaxies (Quantum Celestial Mechanics )

By Progress in Physics

Quantization State of Baryonic Mass in Clusters of Galaxies (Quantum Celestial Mechanics ) - Progress in Physics
  • Release Date: 2007-01-01
  • Genre: Physics

Description

The rotational velocity curves for clusters of galaxies cannot be explained by Newtonian gravitation using the baryonic mass nor does MOND succeed in reducing this discrepancy to acceptable differences. The dark matter hypothesis appears to offer a solution; however, non-baryonic dark matter has never been detected. As an alternative approach, quantum celestial mechanics (QCM) predicts that galactic clusters are in quantization states determined solely by the total baryonic mass of the cluster and its total angular momentum. We find excellent agreement with QCM for ten galactic clusters, demonstrating that dark matter is not needed to explain the rotation velocities and providing further support to the hypothesis that all gravitationally bound systems have QCM quantization states. 1 Introduction