Are There Pressure Waves in the Vacuum?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
The Higgs vacuum is a kind of medium. In any medium one generally expects sound waves for sufficiently long wavelengths (>> mean free path). I briefly describe how the broken-symmetry vacuum can be viewed as a Bose-Einstein condensate of `phion' particles. This picture yields a natural notion of the `mean free path'. I speculate that this is at the millimeter-centimeter scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0109204,
title = {Are There Pressure Waves in the Vacuum?},
author = {P. M. Stevenson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0109204},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages. Contribution to CPT01 conference, Indiana U., August 2001