2010/03/31 by Luis Anchordoqui, De Chang Dai, Malcolm Fairbairn +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732312500216
v1: 5 pages revtex, 1 eps figure; v2: includes extensive discussion on violation of Lorentz invariance, featured in a Nature editorial [Nature 466 (2010) 426] http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100720/full/466426a.html; v3: discussion expanded, matching journal version
arxiv created 2011/12/29 · arxiv updated 2015/05/18
We propose that the effective dimensionality of the space we live in depends on the length scale we are probing. As the length scale increases, new dimensions open up. At short scales the space is lower dimensional; at the intermediate scales the space is three-dimensional; and at large scales, the space is effectively higher dimensional. This setup allows for some fundamental problems in cosmology, gravity, and particle physics to be attacked from a new perspective. The proposed framework, among the other things, offers a new approach to the cosmological constant problem and results in striking collider phenomenology and may explain elongated jets observed in cosmic-ray data.