The Smallest Structure at the Limit: A Jeans Length for the Bounce Era
At the Aldred Limit, pressure and gravity balance on a definite scale, the Jeans length, and no smaller self-gravitating structure can form or survive the bounce era. With the relativistic sound speed c over root 3 at the bound density, the Jeans length is 0.00 m and the corresponding Jeans mass is 2.813e+11 kg. The minimum-size patch of the observable universe, 0.0 m in radius, contains 5.333e+41 such Jeans volumes. The Jeans mass is the smallest unit of structure the bounce can hand to the subsequent expansion as a coherent lump: anything smaller is pressure-supported and disperses, anything larger can in principle persist. These figures convert the bounce from a single event into a granular one, with a definite grain size, and they bound from below the mass of any primordial object whose origin is claimed to lie in the bounce itself. Computed from stated assumptions, not measured.
Authors
- William Alexander Aldred (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1215-577X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24123566
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00