Ring Nebula as evidence for the TGD view of planets and stars and their formation

Ethan Siegel posted to BigThink a highly interesting article "Did JWST catch the Ring Nebula forming new planets?" (see this). Planets are observed in the nebula.

I glue here the description of the article almost as such.

1. The standard view is that when hydrogen depletes in the core of the Sun, it will expand to a red giant. Mercury, Venus, and likely also Earth will be devoured. The Oort cloud, Kuiper belt, and possibly even Neptune and Uranus. Therefore the presence of planets in the Ring Nebula is surprising. Finally a white dwarf will form and ionizes the previous ejecta.
2. The observations of JWST of Ring Nebula at a distance about 2000 ly however suggest that the story continues. Ring Nebula possesses a ring, lobes and inner and outer halos. Inside many different chemical elements can be detected. Polar flows of CO⁺ ions inside a barrel shaped material are observed. The dying star's remnant is centrally located but a long suspected companion star remains elusive. JWST research, focusing on the Ring Nebula s interior and central regions, is vitally important. The central star is surrounded by a compact dust cloud, revealed at long wavelengths (above ∼ 5 microns). These dusty features resemble young protoplanetary and dusty debris disks.

   The formation of planets in this way does not conform with the standard view that planets are formed from a proto-disk. This may mark a new, unforeseen planet-forming phase. Perhaps white dwarf systems spawn new planets, even after dying.

In the TGD based cosmology, the smooth cosmic expansion is replaced with fast explosive events, mini bigbangs, in with the size of the astrophysical objects suddenly increases or it throws out a layer to which a magnetic bubble consisting of a network of monopole flux tubes is formed. This view revolutionizes the view about the formation of planets and smaller structures.

1. The ring nebula discussed in the article having several layers brings to mind the TGD based proposal for the formation of planets. The central star would suffer an explosion throwing out spherical shells from its surface and these shells could (not necessarily) later condense to rings and these in turn would form planets. This mechanism could replace the standard model for the formation of planets as a gravitational condensation of protodisk.

   For magnetic bubbles see this and this. For solar anomalies see this and this.

   Vega is a star with proto disk-like structure but, contrary to the expectations, has no planets (see this).

2. Even the planets could explode and create moons and rings in this way. Moon and Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars, could have formed in this kind of explosion (see this, this and this).
3. Cambrian Explosion for Earth would have caused expansion of radius of Eartg by factor 2 and led to the bursts of underground oceans containing highly evolved multicellulars to the surface of the Earth (see this and this).

How could this vision relate to the findings of JWST? It is good to first describe briefly some aspect of the TGD view of astrophysics described in the article "Some solar mysteries" (see the this).

1. The article relies on new hadron- and nuclear physics predicted by TGD. In particular, scaled up copies of hadron physics are predicted and M₈₉ hadron physics have a mass scale which is 512 times the mass scale of ordinary nucleons.
2. Also involved is zero energy ontology (ZEO), which solves the basic problem of quantum measurement theory and predicts that the arrow of time changes in "big" state function reductions. This would happen even in astrophysical scales.
3. The number theoretic view of physics (see this, this, this, this and this) in turn predicts that quantum coherence is possible even in astrophysical scales. Nottale proposed that the notion of gravitational Planck constant ℏ_gr makes sense for classical long range gravitational fields and considered a model of the planetary system as an analog of atom. The value of ℏ_gr value is fixed by the Equivalence Principle apart from a dimensionless velocity parameter β₀ = v₀/c, which for Sun is about 2^-11. In the TGD framework, ℏ_gr is proposed to be a genuine Planck constant (see this, this, this) assignable to phases of the ordinary matter located ad field bodies and behaving like dark matter but not identifiable as galactic dark matter which is more like dark energy associated with cosmic strings in TGD. The proposal generalizes to long range electric fields (see this).

The key observation is the following numerical coincidence. White dwarf is a very dense object with a radius of about Earth radius and mass of the order of the mass of the Sun. What could this mean?

1. In the TGD based model of the Sun (see the this) gravitational Compton length of the Sun, assuming Nottale's hypothesis for gravitational Planck constant, is very near to the the radius of the Earth. Could white dwarf be seen as a gravitationally dark object with a gravitational Compton length near to the Earth radius, an analog of an elementary particle?
2. In this model, the Sun would receive metabolic energy as M₈₉ hadrons identifiable as scaled up copies of ordinary hadrons from the galactic center, possibly from the TGD counterpart of the galactic blackhole and these M₈₉ hadrons would decay to ordinary hadrons and produce solar wind and solar radiation. The solar core would be something totally different, perhaps analogous to a cell nucleus.

   Are stars living, metabolizing systems that are born, flourish, and die and whether the remnants of a star can give rise to a reincarnation of the star generating its own planetary system by these explosions as TGD counterparts for a smooth cosmic expansion? Do they form networks analogous to multicellular systems communicating using the signals propagating parallel to the monopole flux tubes?

3. In this framework the stragen observations about white dwarfs combined with the TGD view of the Sun and of the formation of planets inspires several questions. Did the predecessor of the Sun "die" and "reincarnate" as a white dwarf and produce outer planets in its explosion? Did the white dwarf explode and produce the recent Sun and the inner planets?

See for instance the article ANITA anomaly, JWST observation challenging the interpretation of CMB, and star formation in the remnant of a star or the chapter About the recent TGD based view concerning cosmology and astrophysics.

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.