Nuclear Detonations as Probes of Hidden Superluminal Sectors

TL;DR

This paper explores a speculative framework where nuclear detonations could reveal hidden sectors with superluminal propagation, unifying various exotic physics proposals and discussing their observational constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a novel formalism connecting nuclear explosions to hidden superluminal sectors, integrating multiple exotic theories into a unified approach.

Findings

Proposes a layered physical model with hidden sectors and extended causal cones.

Suggests nuclear detonations could excite inaccessible modes in hidden sectors.

Discusses constraints from causality and observations on superluminal phenomena.

Abstract

We propose a highly speculative phenomenological framework in which nuclear detonations and high-energy collisions serve as probes for hidden sectors with effective superluminal propagation. Motivated by analogies between acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena, we stratify the physical description into three layers: a fundamental ``substrate'' layer, hidden-sector fields with extended causal cones, and the emergent Standard Model. We posit that the extreme, macroscopic stress-energy gradients generated by nuclear explosions might excite substrate or hidden modes that remain kinematically inaccessible to standard laboratory probes. This work unifies various exotic proposals -- including extra-dimensional shortcuts and trans-metric shockwaves -- into a single formalism, discussing the constraints imposed by causality and observation while outlining how such distinct high-energy regimes could complement one another in searching for physics beyond the emergent metric.