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How to use the cosmological Schwinger principle for energy flux, entropy, and "atoms of space–time" to create a thermodynamic space–time and multiverse

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, , Citation Andrew Beckwith 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 306 012064 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012064

1742-6596/306/1/012064

Abstract

We make explicit an idea by Padmanabhan in DICE 2010 [1], as to finding "atoms of space–time" permitting a thermodynamic treatment of emergent structure similar to Gibbs treatment of statistical physics. That is, an ensemble of gravitons is used to give an "atom" of space–time congruent with relic GW. The idea is to reduce the number of independent variables to get a simple emergent space–time structure of entropy. An electric field, based upon the cosmological Schwinger principle, is linked to relic heat flux, with entropy production tied in with candidates as to inflaton potentials. The effective electric field links with the Schwinger 1951s result of an E field leading to pairs of e+e charges nucleated in space–time volume V · t. Note that in most inflationary models, the assumption is for a magnetic field, not an electric field. An electric field permits a kink–anti-kink construction of an emergent structure, which includes Glinka's recent pioneering approach to a Multiverse. Also an E field allows for an emergent relic particle frequency range between one and 100 GHz. The novel contribution is a relic E field, instead of a B field, in relic space–time "atom" formation and vacuum nucleation of the same.

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10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012064