Composite gravity

Composite gravity

In theoretical physics, composite gravity refers to models that attempted to derive general relativity in a framework where the graviton is constructed as a composite bound state of more elementary particles, usually fermions.A theorem by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten shows that this is not possible in Lorentz covariant theories: massless particles with spin greater than one are forbidden. The AdS/CFT correspondence may be viewed as a loophole in their argument. However, in this case not only the graviton is emergent; a whole spacetime dimension is emergent, too.[1]

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  1. ^ "Probing composite gravity in colliders". scitation.aip.org. http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRVDAQ000073000007075012000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes. Retrieved 2008-07-08. 

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