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A set of diverse but mutually consistent results obtained in different settings has spawned a new view of loop quantum gravity and its physical implications, based on the interplay of operator calculations and effective theory: Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-27 Martin Bojowald

While numerous examples of fractal spaces may be found in various fields of science, the flow of time is typically assumed to be one-dimensional and smooth. Here we present a metamaterial-based physical system, which can be described by…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-22 Igor I. Smolyaninov

It has been speculated that gravity could be an emergent phenomenon, with classical general relativity as an effective, macroscopic theory, valid only for classical systems at large temporal and spatial scales. As in classical continuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Huan Yang , Larry R. Price , Nicolas D. Smith , Rana X Adhikari , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen

We show that the uncertainty in distance and time measurements found by the heuristic combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity is reproduced in a purely classical and flat multi-fractal spacetime whose geometry changes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

The four dimensional spacetime continuum, as first conceived by Minkowski, has become the dominant framework within which to describe physical laws. In this paper, we show how this four-dimensional structure is a natural property of…

In this study, we explore the field of physics through the lens of fractional dimensionality. We propose that space is not confined to integer dimensions alone, but can also be understood as a superposition of spaces that exist between…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ali Dorostkar

There is an interesting dichotomy between a space-time metric considered as external field in a flat background and the same considered as an intrinsic part of the geometry of space-time. We shall describe and compare two other external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 John Madore , Stefan Schraml , Peter Schupp , Julius Wess

The phenomenologically observed flatness - or near flatness - of spacetime cannot be understood as emerging from continuum Planck (or sub-Planck) scales using known physics. Using dimensional arguments it is demonstrated that any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-14 D. Bennett , H. B. Nielsen

Field equations in four order derivatives with respect to time and space coordinates based on modified classic relativistic energy of the fractal theory of time and space are received. It is shown appearing of new spin characteristics and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ya. Kobelev

In the framework of the two-form gravity, which is classically equivalent to the Einstein gravity, the one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor of metric is calculated in the finite volume and in the finite temperature by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Miyuki KATSUKI , Shin'ichi NOJIRI , Akio SUGAMOTO

The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

There is sufficient amount of internal evidence in the nature of gravitational theories to indicate that gravity is an emergent phenomenon like, e.g, elasticity. Such an emergent nature is most apparent in the structure of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Padmanabhan

The metric perturbation tensor corresponding to a transverse oscillation of spacetime is composed of products of cosines. When averaged over many wavelengths, such a metric may look either Minkowskian or Euclidean at large scales, depending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Redington

A profound quantum-gravitational effect of space-time dimension running with respect to the size of space-time region has been discovered a few years ago through the numerical simulations of lattice quantum gravity in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Michael Maziashvili

We propose that at the beginning of the universe gravity existed in a limbo either because it was switched off or because it was only conformally coupled to all particles. This picture can be reverse-engineered from the requirement that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Michele Arzano , Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

The geometric foundations of General Relativity are revisited, with particular attention to its gauge invariance, as a key to understanding the true nature of spacetime. Beyond the common image of spacetime as a deformable 'fabric' filling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

Under certain conditions, a $(1+1)$-dimensional slice $\hat{g}$ of a spherically symmetric black hole spacetime can be equivariantly embedded in $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space. The embedding depends on a real parameter that corresponds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 John T. Giblin , Andrew D. Hwang

It is shown that, with some reasonable assumptions, the theory of general relativity can be made compatible with quantum mechanics by using the field equations of general relativity to construct a Robertson-Walker metric for a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vu B Ho

Fractals are measurable metric sets with non-integer Hausdorff dimensions. If electric and magnetic fields are defined on fractal and do not exist outside of fractal in Euclidean space, then we can use the fractional generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Vasily E. Tarasov

Observations of galaxies over large distances reveal the possibility of a fractal distribution of their positions. The source of fractal behavior is the lack of a length scale in the two body gravitational interaction. However, even with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet , Emmanuel Le Guirriec