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A Bohr-type model with gravity as the attractive force

General Physics 2014-12-24 v4

Abstract

We formulate a Bohr-type rotating particle model for three light particles of the same rest mass, forming a bound rotational state under the influence of their gravitational attraction, in the same way that electrostatic attraction leads to the formation of a bound proton-electron state in the classical Bohr model of the H atom. By using special relativity, the equivalence principle and the de Broglie wavelength equation, we find that when the three rotating particles have the rest masses of neutrinos or antineutrinos then surprisingly the rest mass of the rotating state has the rest mass of the stable baryons, i.e. of the proton and the neutron. This rest mass is due almost exclusively to the kinetic energy of the rotating neutrinos. The results are found to be consistent with the theory of general relativity. Predictions for the properties of these bound rotational states are compared with experimental values.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5979,
  title  = {A Bohr-type model with gravity as the attractive force},
  author = {C. G. Vayenas and S. Souentie and A. Fokas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5979},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

27 pages, 12 figures, revised section 5.3, new sections 5.9 and 5.10, arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.1525

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