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Planck-mass-rotons cold dark matter hypothesis

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Sakharov's conjecture that the vacuum is densely occupied with Planck-mass maximons is taken as a model to explain the missing mass as rotons of a superfluid made up from the Planck-mass maximons. Because rotons require a finite excitation energy, they not only can account for the missing mass but, in addition, can mimic a small, positive cosmological constant. According to Sakharov, the large vacuum energy of the Planck-mass maximons is compensated by “ghost particles.” In the proposed superfluid vacuum model, we assume that the compensation is done by a large, negative cosmological constant instead.

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Winterberg, F. Planck-mass-rotons cold dark matter hypothesis. Int J Theor Phys 34, 399–409 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00671599

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