Exoplanet Atmospheric Scale Heights and the Density Bound: A Correction Below Every Detection Threshold
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper computes where hot Jupiter photosphere sits relative to the density bound that arises in Einstein-Cartan gravity when the spin of fermionic matter sources torsion. The bound on the neutron branch is 9.72e+57 kilograms per cubic metre, and on the electron branch 2.87e+51 kilograms per cubic metre. The primary system examined, hot Jupiter photosphere, has a density of 1.00e-03 kilograms per cubic metre, which is a fraction 1.03e-61 of the neutron-branch bound — a margin of 61.0 orders of magnitude. The fractional correction that the bound makes to the effective density, and hence to structure quantities built from it, is that same ratio to leading order. Further systems examined here are hot Jupiter photosphere at 1.00e-03 kilograms per cubic metre; Earth sea-level air at 1.23e+00 kilograms per cubic metre; Earth tropopause at 3.60e-01 kilograms per cubic metre. The conclusion is stated plainly: at these densities the correction is present in the equations and absent from every digit that observation or modelling can reach, and this paper quantifies that absence system by system rather than asserting it. The study is computed from stated assumptions; it is not a measurement.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225786178
FWCI:
Cites:
Cited by:
Related to: