Nematic world crystal model of gravity explaining absence of torsion in spacetime
Abstract
We attribute the gravitational interaction between sources of curvature to the world being a crystal which has undergone a quantum phase transition to a nematic phase by a condensation of dislocations. The model explains why spacetime has no observable torsion and predicts the existence of curvature sources in the form of world sheets, albeit with different high-energy properties than those of string models.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- April 2004
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0307033
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhLA..324..361K
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, no figures. Author Information under http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of paper (including all PS fonts) at http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/346