Gravity through the prism of condensed matter physics
G. E. Volovik
Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
Abstract
In the paper "Life, the Universe, and everything-42 fundamental
questions",
Roland Allen and Suzy Lidström presented personal selection of the
fundamental questions. Here, based on the condensed matter experience, we
suggest the answers to some questions concerning the vacuum energy, black
hole entropy and the origin of gravity. In condensed matter we know both
the many-body phenomena emerging on the macroscopic level and the
microscopic (atomic) physics, which generates this emergence. It appears
that the same macroscopic phenomenon may be generated by essentially
different microscopic backgrounds. This points to various possible
directions in study of the deep quantum vacuum of our Universe.