Author(s)

Firmin J. Oliveira

East Asian Observatory/James Clerk Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope, Hilo, Hawai’i, USA.

The theory that gravitons lose energy by way of gravitational redshift while traveling in a gravitational field is applied to the expansion of the universe and to spiral and dwarf galaxy rotation curves using General Relativity. This is a graviton self interaction model which derives an expansion equation which is identical in form to the standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. In the domain of galaxies, spiral and dwarf galaxy rotation curves are matched using only baryonic mass. Thus, the requirement for dark matter and dark energy in the universe is replaced by this paradigm.

Gravitons, Gravitational Redshift, Baryon Mass Density, Supernovae, Spiral Galaxies

Oliveira, F. (2022) How the Redshift of Gravitons Explains Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Journal of Modern Physics, 13, 1348-1368. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2022.1311084.