Cosmology With A Dark Refraction Index

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2008-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/0802.1728v4

Phys.Rev.D78:044040,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044040

We review Gordon's optical metric and the transport equations for the amplitude and polarization of a geometrical optics wave traveling in a gravity field. We apply the theory to the FLRW cosmologies by associating a refraction index with the cosmic fluid. We then derive an expression for the accumulated effect of a refraction index on the distance redshift relations and fit the Hubble curve of current supernova observations with a non-accelerating cosmological model. We also show that some observational effects caused by inhomogeneities, e.g. the Sachs-Wolfe effect, can be interpreted as being caused by an effective index of refraction, and hence this theory could extend to other speed of light communications such as gravitational radiation and neutrino fluxes.

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