Bibcode
de Matos, Clovis Jacinto; Beck, Christian
Bibliographical reference
Advances in Astronomy, 2009, article id. 931920
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2009
Citations
9
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4
Description
We discuss recent laboratory experiments with rotating superconductors
and show that three so far unexplained experimentally observed effects
(anomalous acceleration signals, anomalous gyroscope signals, Cooper
pair mass excess) can be physically explained in terms of a possible
interaction of dark energy with Cooper pairs. Our approach is based on a
Ginzburg-Landau-like model of electromagnetic dark energy, where
gravitationally active photons obtain mass in the superconductor. We
show that this model can account simultaneously for the anomalous
acceleration and anomalous gravitomagnetic fields around rotating
superconductors measured by Tajmar et al. and for the anomalous Cooper
pair mass in superconductive Niobium, measured by Cabrera and Tate. It
is argued that these three different physical effects are ultimately
different experimental manifestations of the simultaneous spontaneous
breaking of gauge invariance, and of the principle of general covariance
in superconductive materials.