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Equation of state of cosmological model - dependence pressure from the mass energy density of the medium in this model.
In Friedmann's theory , not only is the density of matter created, but also the pressure of the medium: the density of the effective gravitating energy Where - pressure of the medium, and - the energy density of the medium Where - mass energy density of the medium, - the speed of light.
Pressure is expressed through the equation of state or use the dimensionless parameter - the ratio of pressure to energy density then the equation of state:
For different environments has a different meaning. Below we assume that the density of the medium is above zero. The following 9 options are possible:
1. Phantom energy (phantom energy) (see phantom cosmology ) is a medium with negative gravity greater (in magnitude ) than that of a vacuum.
With such an equation of state, the density of the medium increases with time, the negative gravity increases and after a finite time becomes infinite, and a Big Gap will occur in the Universe. Another feature of such an environment is that the speed of sound in it is higher than the speed of light.
2. Vacuum - a medium with negative gravity.
Respectively:
- (only such an equation of state is compatible with the definition of vacuum as a form of energy with a constant density everywhere and always, regardless of the reference system).
In the Einstein equations, the vacuum energy is described by the cosmological constant
According to the latest data [1], the vacuum energy density in the Universe is from critical density .
3. Quintessence - a medium with negative gravity is lower than that of a vacuum.
Only when there is negative gravity, therefore, only under this condition the expansion of the universe accelerates, that is, the nature of dark energy is either a vacuum, or phantom energy, or quintessence.
4. The environment in which there is no positive and negative gravity.
5. The environment in which gravity is lower than that of dust.
6. Dust cloud, ordinary baryonic matter and cold dark matter (no environmental pressure, ).
Respectively:
According to the latest data [1], the energy density of ordinary cold baryonic matter in the Universe is from the critical density , and the density of cold dark matter is from the critical density, which in total gives from critical density.
7. The environment in which gravity is higher than that of dust, but lower than that of radiation.
8. Ultrarelativistic environment (radiation, photons, and other ultrarelativistic particles), including relic radiation ; also massive particles in the early Universe, when the temperature (expressed in energy units) far exceeds the masses of the particles:
The behavior of the Universe was determined by a close to this equation of state in the time interval from the Planck era to the recombination era.
Respectively:
9. The environment in which gravity is higher than that of radiation.
Similarly, when the speed of sound in such an environment is higher than the speed of light .