Prof. Claudia de Rahm's theory of 'Massive Gravity' to explain Dark Energy is getting a lot of press as of late. So let's dig into it. (thread: 1/n)https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/25/has-physicists-gravity-theory-solved-impossible-dark-energy-riddle …
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But wait!, says de Rahm.. Perhaps Lorentz symmetry could just be an *approximate* symmetry of nature This would happen if the graviton (hμν) has a mass--mass terms for gauge fields always break gauge invariance But!.. look at the first tweet.. (5/n)pic.twitter.com/cgEyMtE73l
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Boom! We see that the graviton (metric; hμν) contains the exponential potential we expected! TL;DR: If the graviton has a mass~hubble rate (H), then large scale gravity can act repulsive and reproduce the Dark Energy observations, with no Dark Energy at all! (n/n)pic.twitter.com/bN8NKU4jAp
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I’m actually rather proud of this mini explanation of gauge gravity
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