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• TITLE: Curved Space-Time at the Planck Scale

  AUTHORS: Lewis Nash

  KEYWORDS: Schwarzschild Space-Time, Continuum Mechanics, Planck Lattice, Gravitational Radiation

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol.10 No.1, January 18, 2024

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents a physically plausible and somewhat illuminating first step in extending the fundamental principles of mechanical stress and strain to space-time. Here the geometry of space-time, encoded in the metric tensor, is considered to be made up of a dynamic lattice of extremely small, localized fields that form a perfectly elastic Lorentz symmetric space-time at the global (macroscopic) scale. This theoretical model of space-time at the Planck scale leads to a somewhat surprising result in which matter waves in curved space-time radiate thermal gravitational energy, as well as an equally intriguing relationship for the anomalous dispersion of light in a gravitational field.