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Quantum fluctuations endow spacetime with a foamy texture. The degree of foaminess is dictated by black hole physics to be of the holographic type. Applied to cosmology, the holographic foam model predicts the existence of dark energy with critical energy density in the current (late) universe, the quanta of which obey infinite statistics. Furthermore, we use the deep similarities between turbulence and the spacetime foam phase of strong quantum gravity to argue that the early universe was in a turbulent regime when it underwent a brief cosmic inflation with a “graceful” transition to a laminar regime. In this scenario, both the late and the early cosmic accelerations have their origins in spacetime foam.
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Hochberg D. Quantum-mechanical Lorentzian wormholes in cosmological backgrounds. Int J Clin Exp Med 1995; 52:6846-6855. [PMID: 10019224 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.52.6846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Liu L, Zhao F, Li LX. Can the vacuum foam structure solve the flatness problem of a big bang universe? Int J Clin Exp Med 1995; 52:4752-4753. [PMID: 10019699 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.52.4752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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