Holographic foam, dark energy and infinite statistics

2007/03/31 by Y. Jack Ng · 100 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark energy #Fermion #Holographic principle #Holography #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Observable #Observable universe #Physics #Quantum #Quantum mechanics #Spacetime #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.052

published in Physics Letters B 657(1-3), 10-14 (Elsevier BV) · 12 pages, LaTeX; added references and footnotes; version to appear in Physics Letters B

arxiv created 2007/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Quantum fluctuations of spacetime give rise to quantum foam, and black hole physics dictates that the foam is of holographic type. Applied to cosmology, the holographic model requires the existence of dark energy which, we argue, is composed of an enormous number of inert “particles” of extremely long wavelength. These “particles” necessarily obey infinite statistics in which all representations of the particle permutation group can occur. For every boson or fermion in the present observable universe there could be ∼1031 such “particles”. We also discuss the compatibility between the holographic principle and infinite statistics.

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