A Proposed Alternative Low Energy Quantum Field Theory of Gravity Based on a Bose-Einstein Condensate Effect

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel low-energy quantum gravity theory based on a Bose-Einstein Condensate effect, suggesting gravity arises from condensate interactions rather than particle exchange, and offers testable predictions under certain assumptions.

Contribution

It proposes a new quantum gravity model using condensate interactions, providing a finite, predictive framework limited to low energies, with falsifiable predictions related to the Higgs condensate.

Findings

The theory predicts an attractive force between contaminants in a condensate.

It is finite and predictive at low energies.

Falsifiable predictions are made assuming the Higgs condensate underlies gravity.

Abstract

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a Bose-Einstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the ``contaminant in condensate effect," contaminants cause a potential in an otherwise uniform condensate, forcing the condensate between two contaminants to a higher energy state. The energy of the system decreases as the contaminants come closer together, causing an attractive force between contaminants. It is proposed that mass-energy may have a similar effect on Einstein's space-time field, and gravity is quantized by the same method by which the contaminant in condensate effect is quantized. The resulting theory is finite and, if a physical condensate is assumed to underly the system, predictive. However, the proposed theory has several flaws at high energies and is thus limited to low energies. Falsifiable predictions are given for the case that the Higgs condensate is assumed to be the condensate underlying gravity.