• Rotational Curves of the Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda Galaxy in Light of Vacuum Polarization around Eicheon † 

      Cherkas, Sergey L.; Kalashnikov, Vladimir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Eicheon properties are discussed. It is shown that the eicheon surface allows setting a boundary condition for the vacuum polarization and obtaining a solution describing the dark matter tail in the Milky Way Galaxy. That ...
    • Vacuum Polarization Instead of “Dark Matter” in a Galaxy 

      Cherkas, Sergey L.; Kalashnikov, Vladimir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We considered a vacuum polarization inside a galaxy in the eikonal approximation and found that two possible types of polarization exist. The first type is described by the equation of state p=ρ/3, similar to radiation. ...
    • Æther as an Inevitable Consequence of Quantum Gravity 

      Cherkas, Sergey; Kalashnikov, Vladimir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The fact that quantum gravity does not admit an invariant vacuum state has far-reaching consequences for all physics. It points out that space could not be empty, and we return to the notion of an æther. Such a concept ...