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The Heisenberg limit at cosmological scales

General Physics 2022-02-01 v1

Abstract

For an observation time {equal to} the universe age, the Heisenberg principle fixes the value of the smallest measurable mass at mH=1.35×1069m_{\rm H}=1.35 \times 10^{-69} kg and prevents to probe the masslessness for any particle using a balance. The corresponding reduced Compton length to mHm_{\rm H} is \lambdabarH\lambdabar_{\rm H}, and represents the length limit beyond which masslessness cannot be proved using a metre ruler. In turns, \lambdabarH\lambdabar_{\rm H} is equated to the luminosity distance dHd_{\rm H} which corresponds to a red shift zHz_{\rm H}. When using the Concordance-Model parameters, we get dH=8.4d_{\rm H} = 8.4 Gpc and zH=1.3z_{\rm H}=1.3. Remarkably, dHd_{\rm H} falls quite short to the radius of the {\it observable} universe. According to this result, tensions in cosmological parameters could be nothing else but due to comparing data inside and beyond zHz_{\rm H}. Finally, in terms of quantum quantities, the expansion constant H0H_0 reveals to be one order of magnitude above the smallest measurable energy, divided by the Planck constant

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@article{arxiv.2112.07359,
  title  = {The Heisenberg limit at cosmological scales},
  author = {Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci and Micol Benetti and Salvatore Capozziello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07359},
  year   = {2022}
}

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A different view on the Hubble tension. To appear in final form on Foundations of Physics by Springer, as follow-on of Capozziello S., Benetti M., Spallicci A.D.A.M., 2020, Found. Phys., 50, 893