Waffle Structure of the Vacuum: From String Fluxes to Dark Energy ✦
Original: "Small Vacuum Energy and Tunneling in a Modified Bousso-Polchinski Model"
A new model shows that the tiny density of dark energy naturally arises from the geometry of extra dimensions, like a crisp waffle baked between hot plates of fluxes.
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The tiny density of dark energy — 10⁻¹²⁰ — has teased physicists for decades with its unnatural smallness. Now it turns out: it arises on its own, like a crispy waffle baked between hot plates of fluxes. Analysis of hundreds of millions of extra-dimensional geometries has shown: our Universe is not a strange anomaly, but a typical cell in the string landscape. And somewhere in the multiverse, the next giant leap may already be ripening.
🎯 The number of studied Hodge number sets (532,600,483) is comparable to the population of Earth — as if every living person represents their own version of twisted dimensions.
V = \Lambda_{0} - \frac{3}{\mathcal{V}^{2}} \left| N^{I} \Pi_{I} \right|^{2}
Vacuum energy as the difference of a positive uplift and the contribution from twisted fluxes.
\frac{24 J}{e \pi \chi} > 1
Constraint on Hodge numbers ensuring metastability of the Universe.
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Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidtdark energy
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