Optical gravity in a graviton spacetime

Abstract

While the Hubble redshift is generally linked to expansion of spacetime, an open question concerns where the energy lost from redshifted photons, gravitons and gravitational waves goes. One possibility is that it gives rise to gravity. In the optical-mechanical analogy in general relativity, relativistic light deflection is treated as refraction in an optical medium of varying density gradient. We now model the optical medium analogue of spacetime as a real graviton conjugate interlinking all masses. Gravitons in local mass systems are assumed to be organized in coherent quantum states overlapping with those of particles within spacetime structures. With the Hubble redshift, however, gravitons acquire longer wavelengths as they are shifted to less coherent states. Assuming that the momentum and energy lost from gravitons is transferrable to particles, mutual screening by masses then gives rise to an attractive force with a magnitude consistent with gravity. Some possible cosmological implications of the model are discussed.