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.

TGD based model for the formation of planets predicts that planets were formed in mini bigbangs, that is explosions which through from the parent star a magnetic flux tube layer carrying the mass of the planet to be formed (see for instance this, this, this). This model is developed in more detail here). This model differs dramatically from the standard model view of energy production since the energy would be produced in the surface layer consisting of nuclei of scaled up variant of ordinary hadron physics, that I refer to has M₈₉= 2⁸⁹-1 hadron physics. M₈₉ would have mass scale , which is 512 times that of ordinary hadrons.

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 big bangs 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 model predicts that stars have flux tube connections to other stars, in particular galactic blackhole-like objects and this could make possible this kind of perturbations. Ordinary solar wind would correspond to similar local explosions. This suggests a similarity with the models for the sunspot cycle and for the geomagnetic reversals and excursions.

See the article Some Solar Mysteries or the chapter with the same title.

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.