Why doesn't Vega have planets?

The popular article 'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega and scientists can't explain it informs that James Webb telescope has found that star Vega probably has no planets.

Vega is a blueish colored star about twice as massive as the Sun and located at distance of about 25 light-years from Earth and is therefore rather near to Sun. By its large mass Vega is predicted to be short lived. Vega is .5 billion years old and considerably younger than Sun. The age of Sun and its planetary system, believed to have condensed simultaneously from a proto disk, is believed to be 4.6 billion years. Due to its fast spin, close proximity to Earth and the fact that its magnetic pole is pointed right at us, Vega appears very bright in the night sky. Vega is the fifth-brightest star visible from Earth to the naked eye in Northern sky (Pohjan Tähti in Finnish).

JWST images reveal that Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide (161 billion kilometers) disk of cosmic dust similar to the similar disk believed to have surrounded Sun for 4.5 billion years ago , confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets. The standard model for the formation of planets and Sun from this kind of disc however predicts that Vega should have planets. This might mean a death blow for the standard narrative of the formation of planets.

The TGD based model for the formation of planets predicts that planets were formed in mini bigbangs, that is explosions in which the parent star lost a surface layer consisting of closed flux monopole flux tubes flowing along the surfacein North-South direction. The surface layer hand roughly the mass of the planet to be formed and condensed later to the planet (see for instance this, this, and this).

The model is developed in more detail here and differs dramatically from the standard model view of the stellar energy production since stellar wind and radiation would be produced at the surface layer consisting of nuclei of a scaled up variant of ordinary hadron physics predicted by padic length scale hypothesis (see this and I this). I refer to this hadron physics as M₈₉= 2⁸⁹-1 hadron physics. M₈₉ nuclei would have mass scale, which is 512 times that of the nuclei of the ordinary hadron physics, which corresponds to M₁₀₇= 2¹⁰⁷-1.

Whether the properties of Vega, for instance the fact that according to the standard theory it has lower abundances of elements heavier than ⁴He, could explain why these mini bigbangs did not occur for Vega, remains an open question. This would require a more precise understanding of what causes these mini bigbangs. These explosions should have induced the decay of M₈₉ hadrons to ordinary hadrons so that the entire flux tube layer would have exploded and decayed.

Could some kind of quantum critical phenomenon, stimulated by external perturbation, be in question? The TGD based stellar model predicts that stars have flux tube connections to other stars and also to the galactic blackhole-like object and this could make possible this kind of perturbations. Ordinary solar wind would correspond to similar local explosions. This suggests a similarity with the TGD based models of the sunspot cycle this and of geomagnetic reversals and excursions for which I have considered a model based on stochastic resonance (see this).

The quantum criticality against the explosions means criticality against reconnections of the nearby flux tubes at the M₈₉ surface layer. The reconnections do not occur if this distance is too large. One can estimate this distance from that for the Sun. Assume that the fraction y of the mass of M₈₉ layer of the total mass and the density of mass per unit length for the M₈₉ flux tubes are the same as for the Sun. The mass of the M₈₉ surface layer would be therefore roughly yM_Vega≈ 2yM_Sun. The number N_Vega of flux tubes of length L_Vega= π R_Vega ≈ 2L_Sun from the North Pole of Vega to the South Pole is determined by the condition N_VegaL_Vega= yM_Vega giving N_Vega= N_Sun. Therefore the equatorial transversal distance d_Vega=2π R_Vega/N_Vega= 2d_Sun. This could mean the loss of the criticality against the formation of reconnections.

See the article The blackhole that grew too fast and why Vega has no planets? or the chapter Some Solar Mysteries.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.