The Origin of Gravity

Abstract

I consider a pair of harmonic, electromagnetically coupled oscillators. Their dynamic coupling is allowed in the near field, that is, for frequencies roughly below ~c/r for virtual exchanges between two elementary entities. It is also valid for tunneling photons from very distant and red-shifted matter in the radiation gauge. In this case, the near magnetic field can be safely ignored. I treat the problem using Planck's and Post's ensemble description of harmonic oscillators. It is found that the correlated interacting modes have lower eigen frequencies and positive zero-modes, their anticorrelating counterparts having higher eigenfrequencies and negative zero-modes. While the former tend to induce coherent states over large ensembles, the latter cannot. This applies to all the modes of the near field, as well as to the transverse radiant modes. As a result, an attractive -1/r long-range potential is found in all the zero-modes of the near field, with a cosmological constant depending on the disorder in the system, provided that the interacting modes be most strongly cohered from the far infrared. This occurs naturally in Yilmaz's cosmology, where the Zitterbewegung of very distant matter is felt in the far infrared by the Zitterbewegung of local matter, in proportion to the frequencies of both, which agrees with the principle of equivalence. The Machian inertia appears on cosmic scales from bound coherent states through this tunneling electromagnetic radiation. In an elliptic Universe, the very low frequency modes of the coupled oscillators can be identified with those of their radiative antipodal image. As a result, far infrared coherent modes are expected to arise in the Universe that lies within their realm, in which the local oscillators intrinsically partake, inducing gravity.