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Gravity through the prism of condensed matter physics

Other Condensed Matter 2023-09-06 v5 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the paper "Life, the Universe, and everything--42 fundamental questions", Roland Allen and Suzy Lidstr\"om presented personal selection of the fundamental questions. Here, based on the condensed matter experience, we suggest the answers to some questions concerning the vacuum energy, black hole entropy and the origin of gravity. In condensed matter we know both the many-body phenomena emerging on the macroscopic level and the microscopic (atomic) physics, which generates this emergence. It appears that the same macroscopic phenomenon may be generated by essentially different microscopic backgrounds. This points to various possible directions in study of the deep quantum vacuum of our Universe.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14370,
  title  = {Gravity through the prism of condensed matter physics},
  author = {G. E. Volovik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14370},
  year   = {2023}
}

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