The old problem of the cosmological constant solved?

TL;DR

The paper proposes a novel quantum gravity approach called the ring paradigm, which suggests superluminal gravity and a phonon-like graviton, potentially solving the cosmological constant problem and impacting scalar field theories.

Contribution

It introduces the ring paradigm, a new quantum gravity framework with superluminal gravity and phonon-like gravitons, offering solutions to the cosmological constant problem.

Findings

Potential resolution of the cosmological constant problem.

Implications for scalar field theories and phantom fields.

Radical breaking of Lorentz invariance.

Abstract

We formulate an approach to quantum gravity, called the ring paradigm. Gravity is mediated superluminally, and the graviton is described as a phonon on the grid of matter in the Universe. This theory has very interesting applications to cosmology and would ultimately solve the old problem of the cosmological constant. It further gives new impulses to the scalar field theories because the gravitational ring decays to some phantom field. As is obvious, we radically break the Lorentz invariance, which means that some generalization of the Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem in quantum field theory is possible.