https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11088-6
Regular Article
Speakable and unspeakable in cosmology: Dark matter vs. gravitational self-energies. Hubble’s constant, the cosmological term and all that
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
* e-mail: christ@df.unipi.it
Received:
11
March
2011
Revised:
1
September
2011
Accepted:
2
September
2011
Published online:
23
September
2011
The inadequacy of the present cosmological picture is underlined. The central issue of energy and particles-photons number conservation is addressed. It is shown that the consideration of gravitational self-energy is paramount both for matter and for radiation to bring present data estimates of matter and radiation density and the radius of the universe towards agreement with the Planck scale quantities from which it should have consistently evolved. Particle creation is proven to play a fundamental role in the evolution of the Universe. It is argued that we might be living inside an expanding black hole.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer, 2011
