Vacuum polarization by electric fields is a well established fact. Assuming that anti-matter has negative gravitational properties, the fluctating electric dipoles from the quantum vacuum may also have gravitational dipolar properties. A model is developed that describes how electric fields could gravitationally polarize the vacuum causing gravitational screening or anti-screening effects. This leads to a violation of the Weak Equivalence Principle or a general mass change most notabily for elementary particles, such as the electron or positron, below but close to measured boundaries. Also a gravitational vacuum torque is predicted to act on a charged capacitor perpendicular to a gravitational field. The predictions could be verified by future laboratory experiments that could contribute on our understanding of the gravitational properties of anti-matter.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:29239 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Tajmar, Martin |
| Publisher | American Scientific Publishers |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Journal of advanced physics, vol. 5 (2015) 2, pp 180-183, ISBN: 2168-1996 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1166/jap.2016.1249 |
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