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Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v5 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The Fermi-point scenario of emergent gravity has the following consequences: gravity emerges together with fermionic and bosonic matter; emergent fermionic matter consists of massless Weyl fermions; emergent bosonic matter consists of gauge fields; Lorentz symmetry persists well above the Planck energy; space-time is naturally 4-dimensional; Universe is naturally flat; cosmological constant is naturally small or zero; underlying physics is based on discrete symmetries; `quantum gravity' cannot be obtained by quantization of Einstein equations; there is no contradiction between quantum mechanics and gravity; etc.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0724,
  title  = {Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario},
  author = {G. E. Volovik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0724},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

16 pages, 8 figures, submitted to proceedings of Royal Society scientific discussion meeting "Cosmology meets condensed matter" held on 28 January 2008 in London, references added

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