2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-016-9853-9
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The lattice world, quantum foam and the universe as a metamaterial

Abstract: This work describes the gravitational effects of an ordered array of Planck masses, arrayed in a cubic lattice with a lattice constant equal to the Planck length. This work adds the property of spatial order to the concept of quantum foam that was introduced by John Wheeler over 50 years ago. It is shown that this ordering results in new gravitational phenomena that affect elementary particles with masses close to the Planck mass. The only known elementary particles with a mass comparable to or greater than th… Show more

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“…Although it is naturally difficult to speculate about a nonexistent theory, it is generally believed that such a theory would emerge at a scale comparable to that of the Planck energy [22]. Several theories describe a spacetime made of "quantum foam" which violates Lorentz invariance at very high energy scales [23][24][25], which would imply that the vacuum (which is dominated by these highenergy modes) need not be Lorentz invariant, justifying the abandonment of Assumption 3.…”
Section: Vib Effective Field Theory and Lorentz Invariancementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Although it is naturally difficult to speculate about a nonexistent theory, it is generally believed that such a theory would emerge at a scale comparable to that of the Planck energy [22]. Several theories describe a spacetime made of "quantum foam" which violates Lorentz invariance at very high energy scales [23][24][25], which would imply that the vacuum (which is dominated by these highenergy modes) need not be Lorentz invariant, justifying the abandonment of Assumption 3.…”
Section: Vib Effective Field Theory and Lorentz Invariancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…• Many proposals for quantum gravity suppose some discrete spacetime structure arises at a small invariant length scale. Such a length scale must violate Lorentz invariance [22][23][24][25].…”
Section: Cosmological Dynamics Under Semiclassical Stochastic Gravitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2016, upon completing the analysis of the impact of the DST model on Wheeler's quantum foam (Crouse (2016a)), Crouse considered how one could fix the problems with DST. Being at the time unburdened by any knowledge of previous work on DST (besides Weyl's work), or the fact that logical positivism (LP) and the concept of non-absolute space have fallen out of favor with physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, it took little time for us to derive Eq.…”
Section: David Crouse's Distance Formulamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A more realizable test is described in the next section, namely, analyzing any anomalous motion of black holes and other astronomical bodies or groups of bodies. (Crouse (2016a;b)).…”
Section: Travel At the Speed Of Lightmentioning
confidence: 99%
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