1. Introduction
The universe began with the Big Bang, which is a current prevailing scientific opinion. But this Big Bang was not an explosion of 4-dimensional spacetime, which also is a current prevailing scientific opinion, but an explosion of dimensions. More precisely, in the
-dimensional void, a 0-dimensional point appeared, inducing the appearance of countably infinitely other points indistinguishable from the first one. The breach made by the first operation of the
dimensional successor function of the Peano axioms inevitably continued leading to the formation of 1-dimensional, real and imaginary lines, allowing for an ordering of points using multipliers of real units (ones) or imaginary units (
1, and
, where
). Then out of two lines of each kind, crossing each other only at one initial point
, the dimensional successor function formed 2-dimensional
,
, and
Euclidean planes, with
being a mirror reflection of
. And so on, forming
n-dimensional Euclidean spaces
with
real and
imaginary lines,
, and the scalar product defined by
where
. With the appearance of the first 0-dimensional point, information began to evolve [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6].
However, the dimensional properties are not uniform. Concerning regular convex
n-polytopes in natural dimensions, for example, there are countably infinitely many regular convex polygons, five regular convex polyhedra (Platonic solids), six regular convex 4-polytopes and only three regular convex
n-polytopes if
[
7]. In particular, 4-dimensional Euclidean space is endowed with a peculiar property known as exotic
[
8], absent in other dimensionalities. Due to this property,
space provides a continuum of homeomorphic but non-diffeomorphic differentiable structures. Each piece of individually memorized information is homeomorphic to the corresponding piece of individually perceived information but remains nondiffeomorphic (non-smooth). This allowed the variation of phenotypic traits within individuals’ populations [
9] and extended the evolution of information into biological evolution. Exotic
solves the problem of extra dimensions of nature, and perceived space requires a natural number of dimensions [
10]. Each biological cell perceives an emergent space of three real dimensions and one imaginary (time) observer-dependently [
11] and at present, when
is
real, through a spherical Planck triangle corresponding to one bit of information in units of
, where
c is the speed of light in vacuum. This is the emergent dimensionality (ED) [
5,
9,
12,
13,
14].
Appendix F presents some arguments to support the claim that perceived dimensionality sets favourable conditions for biological evolution to emerge.
Each dimension requires certain units of measure. In real dimensions, Max Planck in 1899 derived the
natural units of measure as "independent of special
bodies or
substances, thereby necessarily retaining their meaning for all times and for all civilizations, including extraterrestrial and nonhuman ones" [
15]. Planck units utilize the Planck constant
h that he introduced in his black-body radiation formula. However, in 1881, George Stoney derived a system of natural units [
16] based on the elementary charge
e (Planck’s constant was unknown then). The ratio of Stoney units to Planck units is
, where
is the fine-structure constant. This study derives the complementary set of natural units applicable to imaginary dimensions, including imaginary units, based on the discovered negative fine-structure constant
.
Imaginary and negative physical quantities are the subject of research. In particular, the subject of scientific research is thermodynamics in the complex plane. For example, Lee–Yang zeros [
17,
18] and photon-photon thermodynamic processes under negative optical temperature conditions [
19] have been experimentally observed. Furthermore, the rendering of synthetic dimensions through space modulations has recently been suggested because it does not require any active materials or other external mechanisms to break the time-reversal symmetry [
20]. However, physical quantities accessible for direct everyday observation are mostly real and positive with the negativity of distances, velocities, accelerations, etc., induced by the assumed orientation of
space. Quantum measurement results, for example, are
real eigenvalues of Hermitian operators. Unlike charges, negative, real masses are generally inaccessible for direct observation. However, dissipative coupling between excitons and photons in an optical microcavity leads to the formation of exciton polaritons with negative masses [
21]. In
Section 6 we show that negative masses also result from merging black-body
objects.
Furthermore, the study introduces a model for storing the excess energy of neutron stars and white dwarfs that exceed their mass–energy equivalences in imaginary dimensions. The model results in the upper bound on the size-to-mass ratio of their cores, where the Schwarzschild radius sets the lower bound.
The paper is structured as follows.
Section 2 shows that Fresnel coefficients for the normal incidence of electromagnetic radiation on monolayer graphene include the second negative fine-structure constant
as a fundamental constant of nature.
Section 3 shows that by this second fine-structure constant nature endows us with the
-natural units.
Section 4 introduces the concept of a black-body
object in thermodynamic equilibrium, emitting perfect black-body radiation, and reviews its necessary properties.
Section 5 introduces complex mass and charge energies expressed in terms of real and imaginary
-Planck units introduced in
Section 3 and applies them to black-body
objects.
Section 6 considers observed mergers of black-body
objects to show that the observed data can be explained without the need to introduce hypothetical exotic stellar
objects.
Section 7 discusses fluctuations of black-body
objects.
Section 8 defines the complex forces. The complex force between real masses and imaginary charges is used in
Section 9 to derive a black-body
object surface gravity and the generalized Hawking radiation temperature, and in
Section 10 discussed in the context of the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom.
Section 11 summarizes the findings of this study. Certain prospects for further research are given in the Appendices.
2. The Second Fine-Structure Constant
Numerous publications provide Fresnel coefficients for the normal incidence of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) on monolayer graphene (MLG), which are remarkably defined only by
and the fine-structure constant
where
is the Planck charge,
ℏ is the reduced Planck constant,
is vacuum permittivity (the electric constant), and
e is the elementary charge. Transmittance (T) of MLG
for normal EMR incidence was derived from the Fresnel equation in the thin-film limit [
22] (Eq. 3), whereas spectrally flat absorptance (A)
was reported [
23,
24] for photon energies between about
and
[eV]. T was related to reflectance (R) [
25] (Eq. 53) as
, i.e,
The above equations for T and R, as well as the equation for the absorptance
were also derived [
26] (Eqs. 29-31) based on the thin film model (setting
for substrate). The sum of transmittance (
3) and the reflectance (
4) at normal EMR incidence on MLG was derived [
27] (Eq. 4a) as
where
is the vacuum impedance,
is the MLG conductivity [
28],
k is the wave vector of light in vacuum, and
is the electric susceptibility of vacuum. Therefore, these coefficients are well established theoretically and experimentally [
22,
23,
24,
27,
29,
30].
As a consequence of the conservation of energy
In other words, the transmittance in the Fresnel equation describing the reflection and transmission of EMR at normal incidence on a boundary between different optical media is, in the case of the 2-dimensional (boundary) of MLG, modified to include its absorption.
The reflectance
(
4) of MLG can be expressed as the quadratic equation of
which can be expressed in terms of the reciprocal of
, defining
as
The quadratic equation (
9) has two roots
Therefore, the Equation (
8) includes the second negative fine-structure constant
. It turns out that the sum of the reciprocals of these fine-structure constants (
10) and (
11)
is remarkably independent of the value of the reflectance R. Furthermore, the minimum of the parabola (
9) amounts
and occurs at
, as shown in
Figure 1. Also, these values are independent of the reflectance (
4) value, and the same results can (only) be obtained for
(cf.
Appendix B).
We further note that the relation (
12) corresponds to the following identity
between the roots (
10) and (
11), which is also present in the MLG Fresnel equations and the corresponding Euclid formula (cf.
Appendix D).
These dependences on only between the fine-structure constants and suggest that they do not vary over time.
These results are also intriguing in the context of a peculiar algebraic expression for the fine-structure constant [
31]
that contains a
free term and is very close to the physical definition (
2) of
, which according to the CODATA 2018 value is
. We note in passing that CODATA values are computed by averaging the measurements.
Using relations (
12) and (
14), we can express the negative reciprocal of the 2
nd fine-structure constant
that emerged in the quadratic equation (
8) also as a function of
only
Using relations (
14) and (
15), T (
3), R (
4), and A (
5) of MLG for normal incidence of EMR can be expressed just by
(cf.
Appendix C). Moreover, equation (
8) includes two
-like constants for two surfaces with positive and negative Gaussian curvatures (cf.
Appendix E).
3. Set of -Planck Units
In this section, we shall derive complementary Planck units based on the second fine-structure constant
. We shall further call them
-Planck units. Natural units can be derived from numerous starting points [
5,
32] (cf. Appendices
Appendix G and
Appendix H). The central assumption in all natural unit systems is that the quotient of the unit of length
and time
is a unit of speed; we call it
. It is the speed of light in vacuum
c in all systems of natural units, except for Hartree and Schrödinger units, where it is
, and Rydberg units, where it is
2. On the other hand,
c as the velocity of the electromagnetic wave is derivable from Maxwell’s Equations in vacuum
where
is the electric field, and
is vacuum permeability (the magnetic constant). Without postulating any solution to this equation but by simple substitution
and
,
factors out, and we obtain well known
symmetric in its electric and magnetic parts [
33] from which the bivalued
can be obtained, knowing the values of
and
. We note that it is
, not
c, present in mass-energy equivalence, the Lorentz factor, the BH potential, etc. We further note that Maxwell’s equations in vacuum are not directly dependent on the fine-structure constant(s). It is included in the magnetic constant
.
In the following, we assume the universality of the real elementary electric charge
e defining both matter and antimatter, the Planck constant
h, the uncertainty principle parameter, and the gravitational constant
G (i.e. we assume that there are no counterparts to these physical constants in other physical dimensions in our model and that these dimensional constants are positive). The last two assumptions are probably too far-reaching, given that we do not need to know the gravitational constant
G or the Planck constant
h to find the product of the Planck length
and the speed of light in vacuum [
34]. We note in passing that antimatter obeys gravity [
35], which is consistent with the findings of this study.
The fine-structure constant can be defined as the quotient (
2) of the squared (and thus positive) elementary charge
e and the squared Planck charge
. We chose Planck units over other natural unit systems not only because they incorporate the fine-structure constant
and the Planck constant
h. Other systems of natural units (except for Stoney units) also incorporate them. The reason is that only the Planck area defines one bit of information on a patternless black hole surface given by the Bekenstein bound (
47) and the binary entropy variation [
5,
12].
To accommodate the negativity of the fine-structure constant discovered in the preceding section, we must introduce the imaginary Planck charge
so that its square would yield a negative value of
.
Next, we note that an imaginary
, which must have a physical definition analogous to
, requires either a real and negative speed of light or some complementary real and negative electric constant (we assume that
h is positive). Let us call them
and
From this equation, we find that
, as the values of the other constants are known. Next, we assume that the solution (
17) of Maxwell’s equations in vacuum is also valid for other values of the constants involved. Let us call the unknown magnetic constant
, so
From that and from
, we conclude that the product
. We note that the quotient of the squared Planck charge and mass introduces the imaginary Planck mass
the value of which can be calculated, knowing the value of the imaginary Planck charge
from the relation (
18). From (
21) we also conclude that
and then by (
20) that
and
. Knowing
we can determine the value of the negative nonprincipal square root of
of the relation (
20) as
which is greater than the speed of light in vacuum
c in modulus.
The mass, length, time, and charge units can express all electrical units. Therefore, along with temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity, they are base units of the International System of Quantities (ISQ). We further conclude that the magnetic constant
is lower than
Unlike the electric constant
, the magnetic constants
are independent of the unit of time. Furthermore, negative
and
lead to the second, also time-dependent but negative vacuum impedance
Finally, combining relations (
18) and (
19) yields
which leads to the following important relation between the speeds of light in vacuum
c,
, and the fine-structure constants
,
valid for both principal and non-principal square roots of the relation (
20).
is also the electron’s velocity at the first circular orbit in the Bohr hydrogen atom model
3 to which we shall return in
Section 10. Furthermore, the relation (
26) introduces an interesting interplay between
vs.
and
c vs.
that, as we conjecture, should be able to explain
state in the fractional quantum Hall effect in the 2D system of electrons, as well as other fractional states with an even denominator [
36] (cf.
Appendix I). The relation (
26) is not the only
to
relation. Along with the two
-like constants
,
(relations (
A21) and (
A23), cf.
Appendix E)
Therefore, the non-principal square root of
and principal square root of
in (
20) also introduce, respectively, imaginary (
)-Planck units and real (
)-Planck units. In particular, the imaginary (
)-Planck time parameterizes the HSs time relations [
5,
12]. We conjecture that
-Planck units is appropriate for espressing physical quantities of
Euclidean space rather than
Euclidean space that we perceive due to the minimum energy principle (cf.
Appendix F). Furthermore, the speed of electromagnetic radiation is the product of its wavelength and frequency, and these quantities would be imaginary in terms of imaginary Planck units; the negative speed of light is necessary to accommodate this.
The negative speed of light
(
22) leads to the complementary Planck charge
, length
, mass
, time
, and temperature
that redefined by square roots containing
raised to odd powers (1, 3, 5) become bivalued and real-imaginary since
c and
are bivalued. In other words, both Planck and
-Planck units have four forms equal in modulus: real positive, real negative, imaginary positive, and imaginary negative. However, here we consider mostly real, positive
-Planck units and imaginary, positive
-Planck units (hence the subscript
i).
Principal square roots of the base
-Planck units (for negative
) that can be expressed, using the relation (
26), in terms of base Planck units
,
,
,
, and
are
Most Planck units derived from the
-Planck base units (
28)-(
32) are also imaginary. They include the
Planck volume
the
Planck momentum
the
Planck energy
and the
Planck acceleration
However, the
-Planck density
and the
-Planck area
are real and bivalued similarly to the Planck density
and area
. Interestingly, both Planck forces
and
are strictly positive.
We note that Coulomb’s law for elementary charges and Newton’s law of gravity for Planck masses define the fine-structure constants
where
is some real or imaginary distance and
is imaginary. The area of a sphere in the denominator of the Coulomb force invites further research.
The relations between time (
31) and temperature (
32)
-Planck units are inverted,
,
, and saturate the energy-time version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (HUP) taking energy from the equipartition theorem for one bit of information [
5,
12,
37]
Furthermore, eliminating
and
from the relations (
28)-(
30), yields
Contrary to the elementary charge
e (
18), there is no physically meaningful
elementary mass that would satisfy the relation (
30)
Neither is there a physically meaningful
elementary (and imaginary)
length satisfying the relation (
38)
(which in modulus is almost 1660 times smaller than the Planck length), or an
elementary temperature abiding to (
32)
and close to the Hagedorn temperature of grand unified string models.
Planck charge relation (
18) and the charge conservation principle imply that the elementary charge
e is the quantum of charge in real and imaginary dimensions, while masses, lengths, temperatures, and other derived quantities that can vary with time are not similarly quantized. The universal character of the charges is additionally emphasized by the real
multiplied by
i in the imaginary charge energy (
58) and imaginary
in the real charge energy (
59). Furthermore, the same forms of the relations (
18) and (
43) reflect the same forms of Coulomb’s law and Newton’s law of gravity, which are the inverse-square laws.
In the following, where deemed appropriate, we shall express the physical quantities by Planck units
where uppercase letters
M,
E,
Q,
,
R, and
D denote respectively masses, energies, charges, Compton wavelengths, radii, and diameters (or
lengths), lowercase letters denote multipliers of the positive real Planck units and imaginary
-Planck units, and the subscripts
i refer to the multiplication of imaginary quantities. We note that the discretization of charges by integer multipliers
q of the elementary charge
e seems too far-reaching, considering the fractional charges of
quasiparticles, in particular in the open research problem of the fractional quantum Hall effect (cf.
Appendix I), and energy-dependent fractional charges in electron pairing [
38].
4. Black Body Objects
There are only three observable
objects in nature that emit perfect black-body radiation: unsupported black holes (BHs, the densest), neutron stars (NSs), supported, as accepted, by neutron degeneracy pressure, and white dwarfs (WDs), supported, as accepted, by electron degeneracy pressure (the least dense). We shall collectively call them black-body
objects (BBs). The spectral density in sonoluminescence, light emission by sound-induced collapsing gas bubbles in fluids, was also shown to have the same frequency dependence as black-body radiation [
39,
40]. Thus, the sonoluminescence, and in particular
shrimpoluminescence [
41], is probably emitted by collapsing micro-BBs. Micro-BH induced in glycerin by modulating acoustic waves was reported [
42].
The term "black-body object" is not used in general relativity (GR) and standard cosmology, but standard cosmology scrunches under embarrassingly significant failings, not just
tensions as is sometimes described, as if to somehow imply that a resolution will eventually be found [
43]. Also, James Webb Space Telescope data show multiple galaxies that grew too massive too soon after the Big Bang, which is a strong discrepancy with the
cold dark matter model (
CDM) expectations on how galaxies formed at early times at both redshifts, even when considering observational uncertainties [
44]. This is an important unresolved issue indicating that fundamental changes to the reigning
CDM model of cosmology are needed [
44]. The term
object as a collection of
matter is a misnomer as it neglects the (quantum) nonlocality [
45] that is independent of the entanglement among
particles [
46], as well as the Kochen-Specker contextuality [
47], and increases as the number of
particles grows [
48,
49]. Thus, we use emphasis for (perceivably indistinguishable)
particle and (perceivably distinguishable)
object, as well as for
matter and
distance. The ugly duckling theorem [
50,
51] asserts that every two
objects we perceive are equally similar (or equally dissimilar), however ridiculous and contrary to common sense
4 that may sound. These terms do not have an absolute meaning in ED. In particular, given the observation of
quasiparticles in classical systems [
52]. Within the framework of ED no
object is
enclosed in
space.
Entropic gravity [
37] explains the galaxy rotation curves without resorting to dark matter (which is not required to explain the rotation curves of certain galaxies, such as the massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 [
53]), has been experimentally confirmed [
54], and is decoherence-free [
55]. It has been experimentally confirmed that the so-called
accretion instability is a fundamental physical process [
56]. We conjecture that this process, already recreated under laboratory conditions [
57], is common for all BBs. As black-body radiation is radiation of global thermodynamic equilibrium, it is patternless [
58] (thermal noise) radiation that depends only on one parameter. In the case of BHs, this is known as Hawking [
59] radiation, and this parameter is the BH temperature
corresponding to the BH diameter [
5]
, where
. Furthermore, BHs absorb patternless information [
5,
60]. Therefore, since Hawking radiation depends only on the diameter of a BH, it is the same for a given BH, even though it is momentary as the BH fluctuates (cf.
Section 7).
As black-body radiation is patternless, triangulated [
5] BBs contain a balanced number of Planck area triangles, each having binary potential
, as has been shown for BHs [
5], based on the Bekenstein-Hawking (BH) entropy [
61]
, where
is the information capacity of the BH surface, i.e., the
Planck triangles
5 corresponding to bits of information [
5,
12,
37,
61,
62], and the fractional part triangle(s) having the area
too small to carry a single bit of information [
5,
12].
BH entropy can be derived from the Bekenstein bound
which defines an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy
S that can be contained within a sphere of radius
R and energy
E. Substituting BH (Schwarzschild) radius
and mass-energy equivalence
, where
is the BH mass, into the bound (
47), it reduces to the BH entropy. In other words, the BH entropy saturates the Bekenstein bound (
47)
6.
The patternless nature of perfect black-body radiation was derived [
5] by comparing the BH entropy with the binary entropy variation
([
5] Eq. (55)), valid for any holographic sphere (HS), where
denotes the number of active Planck triangles with binary potential
. Thus, the entropy of all BBs is
Furthermore,
confirms the patternless thermodynamic equilibrium of BBs by maximizing Shannon entropy [
5].
We shall define the generalized radius of a BB (this definition applies to all HSs) having mass
as a function of
multiplier
and the generalized BB energy
as a function of
multiplier
(this definition also applies to all HSs)
Substituting
from definition (
49) into definition (
50) and the latter into the Bekenstein bound (
47), it becomes
and equals the BB entropy (
48) if
. Thus, the energy of all BBs having a generalized radius (
49) is
with
in the case of BHs, setting the lower bound for other BBs. We shall further call the coefficient
k the
size-to-mass ratio (STM). It is similar to the specific volume (the reciprocal of density) of the BB. We shall derive the upper STM bound in
Section 5.
According to the no-hair theorem, all BHs general relativity (GR) solutions are characterized only by three parameters: mass, electric charge, and angular momentum. However, BHs are fundamentally uncharged, since the parameters of any conceivable BH, in particular, charged (Reissner–Nordström) and charged-rotating (Kerr–Newman) BH, can be arbitrarily altered, provided that the BH area does not decrease [
63] using Penrose processes [
64,
65] to extract electrostatic and/or rotational energy of BH [
66]. Thus any BH is defined by only one real parameter: its diameter, mass, temperature, energy, etc., each corresponding to the other. We note that in the complex Euclidean
space, an
n-ball (
) is spherical only for a vanishing imaginary dimension and for the radius
(
) [
12,
14], resulting in its information capacity
, one unit of BH entropy [
61]. This confirms the universality and applicability of the BH entropy (
48) to all BBs.
Interiors of the BBs are inaccessible to an exterior observer [
61], which makes them similar to interior-less mathematical points representing real numbers on a number line
7. Yet, a BH can embrace this defining real number. Three points forming a Planck triangle corresponding to a bit of information on a BH surface can store this parameter, and this is intuitively comprehensible: the area of a spherical triangle is larger than that of a flat triangle defined by the same vertices, provided the curvature is nonvanishing and depends on this curvature, i.e., this additional parameter defines it. Thus, the only meaningful
spatial notion is the Planck area triangle, which encodes one bit of classical information and its curvature.
However, it is accepted that in the case of NSs, electrons combine with protons to form neutrons, so that NSs are composed almost entirely of neutrons. But it is never the case that all electrons and all protons of an NS become neutrons. WDs are charged by definition, as they are accepted to be mostly composed of electron degenerate
matter. But how can a charged BB store both the curvature and an additional parameter corresponding to its charge? Fortunately, the relation (
18) ensures that the charges are the same in real and imaginary dimensions. Therefore, each
charged Planck triangle of a BB surface is associated with at least three
Planck triangles, each sharing a vertex or two vertices with this triangle in
. And this configuration is capable of storing both the curvature and the charge. The Planck area
(
38) and the
imaginary Planck area
, which is smaller in modulus, can be considered in a polyspherical coordinate system, in which gravitation/acceleration acts in a radial direction (with the entropic gravitation acting inwardly and acceleration acting in both radial directions) [
5], while electrostatics act in a tangential direction.
Contrary to the no-hair theorem, we characterize BBs only by mass and charge, neglecting the angular momentum since the latter introduces the notion of time, which we find redundant in the BB description of a patternless thermodynamical equilibrium.
Not only BBs are perfectly spherical. Also, their mergers, to which we shall return in
Section 6, are perfectly spherical, as it has been experimentally confirmed [
67] based on the registered gravitational event GW170817. One can hardly expect a collision of two perfectly spherical, patternless thermal noises to produce some aspherical pattern instead of another perfectly spherical patternless noise. Where would the information about this pattern come from at the moment of the collision? From the point of impact? No point of impact is distinct on a patternless surface.
The considerations previously discussed may be confusing to the reader, as the energy (
52) of BBs other than BHs (i.e. for
) exceeds the mass-energy equivalence
, which is the limit of the maximum
real energy. In the following section, we will model a part of the energy of NS and WD that exceeds
as imaginary and thus unmeasurable.
5. BB Complex Energies
A complex energy formula
where
and
represent respectively real and imaginary energy of an
object having mass
and charge
8 was proposed in ref. [
68]. Equation (
53) considers real masses
and charges
. To store the surplus energy we shall modify it to a form involving real physical quantities expressed terms in Planck units and imaginary physical quantities expressed terms of the imaginary
-Planck units using relations (
26), (
30), (
35), (
46), and (
25)
To this end, we define the following three complex energies, linking the mass, imaginary mass, and charge within the ED framework, the complex energy of real mass and imaginary charge
of real charge and imaginary mass
and of real mass and imaginary mass
as illustrated in
Figure 2.
We neglect the energy of real and imaginary charges
, since by the relation (
18), the unit of charge is the same in real and imaginary dimensions. The mass-energy equivalence relates the mass
M or
to the speed of light
c or
.
Energies (
55) and (
56) yield two different charge energies corresponding to the elementary charge, the imaginary quantum
and the - larger in modulus - real quantum
Furthermore, , .
The squared moduli of the complex energies (
55)-(
57), expressed in terms of the Planck energy, are
Theorem 1. Complex energies (55)-(57) cannot simultaneously have their real and imaginary parts equal in modulus.
Proof. Complex energies
and
are real-to-imaginary
balanced if their real and imaginary parts are equal in modulus. This holds for
However, they cannot be simultaneously balanced with the energy
, which is balanced for
□
Since by the relation (
18) charges are the same in real and imaginary dimensions, squared moduli of complex energies
and
must be equal, allowing us to obtain the value of the imaginary mass
as a function of mass
M and charge
Q in this equilibrium
In particular for
the relation (
65) yields
which corresponds to the relation (
64). Since the mass
, the square root argument must be nonnegative in relation (
65)
This means that the masses of uncharged micro-BHs () in thermodynamic equilibrium can be arbitrary. However, micro NSs and micro WDs, also in thermodynamic equilibrium, are charged. Thus, even a single elementary charge () of a white dwarf renders its mass comparable to the mass of a grain of sand.
We note here that only the masses satisfying
have Compton wavelengths larger than Planck length [
5]. We note in passing that a classical description has been ruled out on the microgram (
) mass scale [
69]. Comparing this bound with the bound (
67) yields the charge multiplier
q corresponding to an atomic number
of a hypothetical element, which - as we conjecture - sets the limit on an extended periodic table and is a little higher than the accepted limit of
(unoctquadium). More massive elements would have Compton wavelengths smaller than the Planck length, which is physically implausible because the Planck area is the smallest area required to encode one bit of information [
5,
37,
61,
62]. From the relation (
67) we can also obtain the maximum wavelength
corresponding to the charge
q. For
it is
with
corresponding to the bound (
68).
Theorem 2. Complex energies (55)-(57) are equal.
Proof. Direct calculation proves the relation () and if the squared moduli (
60)-(
62) are equal to some constant energy
then subtracting
yields
subtracting this from
yields
which substituted into the relation (
72) yields
and finally, substituting the relation (
74) into the modulus (
60) yields
□
We can interpret the squared generalized energy of BBs (
52) as the squared modulus of the complex energy of the real mass
, taking the observable real energy
of the BB as the real part of this energy. Thus
where
represents a charge surplus energy exceeding
. Similarly, we can interpret the squared generalized energy of BBs (
52) as the squared modulus of the complex energy of the imaginary mass
. Thus
Substituting
from the relation (
76) into the relation (
77) turns the equilibrium condition (
65) into a function of the STM
k instead of the charge
q
which yields the imaginary mass of a BH (for
) and corresponds to the relation (
66) between uncharged masses
M and
, which is, notably, independent of the STM. The square root argument in the relation (
78) must be non-negative, since
. This leads to the maximum STM bound
Furthermore, using the relation (
26), from (
78) we obtain the relation between real and imaginary BH energies
, which are equal in modulus. In general, the relation (
78) relates BBO energies as
The maximum STM bound
(
79) sets the bounds on the BB energy (
52), mass, and radius (
49)
In particular, using the relations (
46),
or
.
Furthermore, the relations (
67) and (
79) expresed in terms of the generalized radius (
49)
set the bound on the minimum mass of BB if
where
defines a condition in which neither
nor
can be further increased to reach its counterpart (defined, respectively, by
and
) in the bound (
82). Thus, for example, 1-bit BB (
) corresponds to
,
-bit BB (
) corresponds to
, while the conjectured heaviest element with atomic number
(
68) corresponds to
In the case of a BB, we obtain the equality of all three complex energies (
55)-(
57) substituting
from (
49) into the relation (
71) and comparing this with (
69). This yields
at which all three energies are equal. The equilibrium
(
85) and the maximum
(
79) STMa satisfy
.
The BB in the energy equilibrium
bearing the elementary charge (
) would have mass
, imaginary mass
, wavelength
, and imaginary wavelength
. On the other hand, the relation (
76) provides the BB charge in equilibrium (
71) as
and the limit of the BB charge
We note that BBs with STMs
are referred to in state of the art as
ultracompact [
70], where
is a photon sphere radius
9. Any
object that undergoes complete gravitational collapse passes through an ultracompact stage [
71], where
. Collapse can be approached by gradual accretion, increasing the mass to the maximum stable value, or by loss of angular momentum [
71]. During the loss of angular momentum, the star passes through a sequence of increasingly compact configurations until it finally collapses to become a black hole. It was also pointed out [
72] that for a neutron star of constant density, the pressure at the center would become infinite if
, a radius of the maximal sustainable density for gravitating spherical
matter given by Buchdahl’s theorem. It was shown [
73] that this limit applies to any well-behaved spherical star where density increases monotonically with radius. Furthermore, some observers would measure a locally negative energy density if
thus breaking the dominant energy condition, although this may be allowed [
74]. As the surface gravity grows, photons from further behind the NS become visible. At
the whole NS surface becomes visible [
75]. The relative increase in brightness between the maximum and minimum of a light curve are greater in the case of
than in the case of
[
75]. Therefore the equilibrium STM ratio
(
85) is well within the range of radii of ultracompact
objects researched in state-of-the-art within the framework of GR.
However, aside from the Schwarzschild radius, derivable from escape velocity
of mass
M by setting
, and discovered in 1783 by John Michell [
76], all the remaining significant radii of GR are only approximations
10. GR neglects the value of the fine-structure constants
and
, which, similarly to
or the base of the natural logarithm, are the fundamental constants of nature.
6. BB Mergers
As the entropy (Boltzmann, Gibbs, Shannon, von Neumann) of independent systems is additive, a merger of BB
1 and BB
2 having entropies
11 (
48)
and
, produces a BB
C having entropy
which shows that the resultant information capacity is the sum of the information capacities of the merging components. Thus, a merger of two primordial BHs, each having the Planck length diameter, the reduced Planck temperature
(the largest physically significant temperature [
12]), and no tangential acceleration
[
5,
12], produces a BH having
which represents the minimum BH diameter allowing for the notion of time [
12]. In comparison, a collision of the latter two BHs produces a BH having
having the triangulation defining only one precise diameter between its poles (cf. [
5]
Figure 3(b)), which is also recovered from HUP (cf.
Appendix G).
Substituting the generalized diameter (
49) into the entropy relation (
86) establishes a Pythagorean relation between the generalized energies (
52) of the merging components and the merger
It is accepted that gravitational events’ observations alone allow measuring the masses of the merging components, setting a lower limit on their compactness, but it does not exclude mergers more compact than neutron stars, such as
quark stars, BHs, or more exotic
objects [
84]. We note in passing that describing the registered gravitational events as
waves is misleading - normal modulation of the gravitational potential, registered by LIGO and Virgo interferometers, and caused by rotating (in the merger case, inspiral)
objects, is wrongly interpreted as a gravitational wave understood as a carrier of gravity [
85]. Furthermore, it has been hinted that outside GR, merging BHs may differ from their GR counterparts [
86].
The accepted value of the Chandrasekhar WD mass limit, which prevents its collapse into a denser form, is
[
87] and the accepted value of the analogous Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff NS mass limit is
[
88,
89]. There is no accepted value of the BH mass limit. The conjectured value is
. We note in passing that a BH with a surface gravity equal to the Earth’s surface gravity (9.81 m/s
2) would require a diameter of
(slightly less than one light year) [
5] and mass
exceeding the conjectured limit. The masses of most registered merging components go well beyond
. Of those that do not, most of the total or final masses exceed this limit. Therefore, these mergers are classified as BH mergers. Only a few are classified otherwise, including GW170817, GW190425, GW200105, and GW200115, listed in
Table 1.
The relation (
87) explains the measurements of large masses of the BB mergers with at least one charged merging component without resorting to any hypothetical types of exotic stellar
objects such as
quark stars. Interferometric data, available online at the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) portal
12, indicates that the total mass of a merger is the sum of the masses of the merging components. Thus
We can use the squared moduli
,
, and
to derive some information about the merger from the relation (
87). We shall initially assume
, since negative masses, similar to negative lengths, and their products with positive ones, are (in general [
21]) inaccessible for direct observation, unlike charges.
with the first inequality (
88) yields
On the other hand,
with the inequality (
89) lead to (
), so the direction of the inequality is reversed)
But
with the first inequality (
88) lead to
contradicting the inequality (
90) (
), while
with the inequality (
90) lead to
contradicting the first inequality (
88) and consistent with the second inequality (
88) introducing the product of positive and negative masses.
with the inequality (
91) yields
contradicting the inequality (
90) and so on.
The additivity of the entropy (
86) of statistically independent merging BBs, both in global thermodynamic equilibrium, defined by their generalized radii (
49), introduces the energy relation (
87). This relation, equality of charges in real and imaginary dimensions (
18), and the BB complex energies (
60)-(
62) induce imaginary, negative, and mixed masses during the merger. Thus, the BB merger spreads in all dimensions, not only observable ones, as a gravitational event associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) event, as reported [
90] based on the gravitational event GW1904251 and the FRB 20190425A event
13. Furthermore, IXPE
14 observations show that the detected polarized X-rays from 4U 0142+61 pulsar exhibit a
linear polarization swing from low to high photon energies [
91]. In addition, direct evidence for a magnetic field strength reversal based on the observed sign change and extreme variation of FRB 20190520B’s rotation measure, which changed from
to
between June 2021 and January 2022 has been reported [
92]; such extreme rotation measure reversal has never been observed before in any FRB or any astronomical object.
In the observable dimensions during the merger, the STM ratio
decreases, making the BB
C denser until it becomes a BH for
and no further charge reduction is possible (cf.
Figure 3). From the relation (
87) and the first inequality (
88) we see that this holds for
For two merging BHs
and the relation (
94) yields
.
Table 1 lists the mass-to-size ratios
calculated according to the relation (
87) that provide the measured mass
of the merger and satisfy the inequality (
94). The mass-to-size ratios
and
of the merging components were arbitrarily selected on the basis of their masses, taking into account the limit of mass
of the NS.
10. Hydrogen Atom
The Bohr model of the hydrogen atom is based on three assumptions that can be conveniently expressed in terms of Planck units, using the relations (
46). The assumption of a natural number of electron wavelengths
that fits along the circumference of the electron’s orbit of radius
R becomes
De Broglie’s relation between electron mass
, velocity
and wavelength becomes
Finally, the postulated equality between the centripetal force exerted on the electron
orbiting around the proton (assuming an infinite mass of the latter) and the Coulomb force between the electron and the proton
17 becomes
It is remarkable that such a simple postulate expressed in terms of Planck units introduces the fine-structure constant
. Joining the relations (
116) and (
117) yields
which combined with (
118) and using the relation (
26) yields
Thus, at the first circular orbit () in this model .
We shall now assume that the centripetal force acting on the electron is equal to the complex force
(
105) with the product of real mass and imaginary charge energies (
102) and use the reduced mass of the proton-electron system
where
and
are the electron and proton charges, and
,
is the proton mass.
For the electron mass
[kg] and the proton mass
[kg] the equation (
121) yields
assuming that
R is equal to the Bohr radius
or the radius
assuming that the Bohr model gives the velocity of the electron, that is,
.
We note that these values correspond to the values given by the Bohr model. We further note that neglecting the opposite signs of the charges (
or
) in the relation (
121) yields, respectively, an imaginary electron velocity
and a negative radius
. We further note that switching the signs of charges (
,
) provides complex conjugates of the relation (
121), which in this case describes the antihydrogen. Therefore, we conjecture that the energy generated during a hydrogen-antihydrogen collision is
Finally, we note that the relation (
121) based, as the Bohr model, on the mass of the electron provides a better agreement to the Bohr radius and the fine-structure constant since
We note that none of the charged elementary particles that form atoms and antiatoms satisfies the complex energy equality of Theorem 2. For example, both proton (
) and electron (
) satisfy
and
of the relation (
70) but
. However, we can postulate the equality of the products of the complex energies (
102)-(
104), that is, for hydrogen and antihydrogen atoms
with "+" for hydrogen and "−" for antihydrogen. Knowing the values of
and
the system of equations (
124) resolves to
yielding real masses
and
.
Expressed in terms of Planck units and the reduced mass of the proton-electron system, the Rydberg constant for hydrogen, is
and the corresponding Rydberg formula can be expressed as
using the wavelength relation (
46) and
algebraic expression (
14). The coefficients
form part of the OEIS sequence A158565 for
.
11. Discussion
The reflectance of graphene under the normal incidence of electromagnetic radiation expressed as the quadratic equation for the fine-structure constant
includes the 2
nd negative fine-structure constant
. The sum of the reciprocal of this 2
nd fine-structure constant
with the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant
(
2) is independent of the reflectance value R and is remarkably equal to simply
. The particular algebraic definition of the fine-structure constant
, containing the free term
, when introduced into this sum, yields
(
15). The negative fine-structure constant
leads to the
-Planck units applicable to imaginary dimensions, including imaginary
-Planck units (
28)-(
36). The real and imaginary mass and charge units (
21), temperature and time units (
41), and length and mass units (
42) are directly related to each other. Furthermore, the relation (
18) shows that the elementary charge
e is common for real and imaginary dimensions.
Applying
Planck units to a complex energy formula [
68] yields complex energies (
55), (
56) setting the atomic number
as the limit on an extended periodic table. The generalized energy (
52) of all perfect black-body
objects (black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs) having the generalized radius
exceeds the mass-energy equivalence if
. The complex energies (
55)-(
57) allow storage of the excess of this energy in their imaginary parts. The results show that the perfect black-body
objects other than black holes cannot have masses lower than
and that
defined by the relation (
79). In addition, it is shown that a black-body
object is in the equilibrium of complex energies if its radius
(
85). The proposed model explains the registered (GWOSC) high masses of the neutron star mergers without resorting to any hypothetical types of exotic stellar
objects.
In the context of the results of this study, monolayer graphene, a truly 2-dimensional material with no thickness
18, is a
keyhole to other, unperceivable dimensionalities. The history of graphene is also instructive. Discovered in 1947 [
95], graphene was long considered an
academic material until it was eventually pulled from graphite in 2004 [
96] by means of ordinary Scotch tape
19. These fifty-seven years, along with twenty-nine years (1935-1964) between the condemnation of quantum theory as
incomplete [
97] and Bell’s mathematical theorem [
98] asserting that it is not true, and the fifty-eight years (1964-2022) between the formulation of this theorem and 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for its experimental
loophole-free confirmation, should remind us that Max Planck, the genius who discovered Planck units, has also discovered Planck’s principle.