Expanding vacuum's friction on subgalactic objects

1. Feb 12, 2005

Loren Booda

Is there a frictional effect on subgalactic (coherent) entities due to the relative motion of the cosmological vacuum expansion?

2. Feb 13, 2005

The_Thinker

could someone explain what booda just said?

3. Feb 13, 2005

Loren Booda

At extragalactic distances, matter flows (co-moves?) with the expanding spacetime (i. e. vacuum energy?), thus experiencing little disparity in relative motion between the two. At distances less than the radius of one's neighborhood galaxy, however, the vacuum flows past significantly coherent (by definition, unaffected by the Hubble expansion) masses.

It seems to me that there should be a measurable difference between far field static vacuum-matter interactions and near field kinetic vacuum-matter interactions. This quasi-frictional effect would most likely manifest as a vacuum polarization, and may explain the quantum nature of dark energy.

What ideas do you all have on the possibility of this phenomenon?

Last edited: Feb 13, 2005