Are There Pressure Waves in the Vacuum?
arXiv:hep-ph/0109204 · doi:10.1142/9789812778123_0045
Abstract
The Higgs vacuum is a kind of medium. In any medium one generally expects sound waves for sufficiently long wavelengths (>> mean free path). I briefly describe how the broken-symmetry vacuum can be viewed as a Bose-Einstein condensate of `phion' particles. This picture yields a natural notion of the `mean free path'. I speculate that this is at the millimeter-centimeter scale.
6 pages. Contribution to CPT01 conference, Indiana U., August 2001
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