Gravitational confinement of photons and matter from Induced Matter theory

MAURICIO BELLINI

Results in Physics

Elsevier Science

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2012 vol. 2 p. 41 - 44

2211-3797

Using an Extended Scharzschild-Anti de Sitter (ESAdS) metric here introduced, where the noncompact extra dimension is time-like, we study the gravitational confinement of matter and photons from a 5D vacuum. The important result here obtained is that the photon trajectories (in general, massless particles), are periodic. They are confined to a radius $rleq 2 m G/c^2$ by the gravitational field. Massive test particles are also gravitationally confined, but their trajectories are not periodic.