TGD-based View about LIGO Results

Abstract

The recent detection of gravitational radiation from a merger of black holes by LIGO detector initiated a new era in astronomy. The detection allows one to sharpen the TGD based view about gravitational radiation, in particular to test the proposal that gravitons propagate as dark gravitons with very large value of Planck constant along magnetic flux tubes. Since classical (no dependence of h_eff) detection of gravitational waves rather than direct detection of gravitons is in question, it is not surprising that the TGD picture survives. Interestingly, a gamma ray burst was observed 0.4 seconds after the merger and is very probably associated with it. In TGD framework, the natural proposal is that this burst arrived as dark cyclotron radiation along the dark flux tubes carrying also the dark gravitons. The energy conserving transformation of the ordinary cyclotron radiation created in the ultra-strong magnetic field of the black hole to dark photons could have generated the gamma ray pulse. The hypothesis allows one to estimate the strength of magnetic field at magnetic flux tubes. The value is consistent with the order of magnitude for intergalactic magnetic fields.