
This interesting book provides the physical and mathematical background for a theory describing the universe as a quantum superfluid, and how dark energy and dark matter arise. Presenting a novel theory spanning many different fields in physics, the key concepts in each field are introduced.
The reader is only expected to know the rudiments of condensed matter physics, quantum field theory and general relativity to explore this fascinating new model of dark matter and dark energy as facets of a cosmic superfluid.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Introduction (112 KB)
Contents:
- Superfluidity and the Order Parameter
- Quantum Turbulence
- Higgs
- Renormalization
- Halpern-Huang Scalar Field
- The Dynamics of Spacetime
- Black Holes
- The Big Bang
- Creation of Matter
- Dark Energy and Dark Matter
- Quantum Vorticity in the Universe
Readership: Students, researchers, and all readers interested in cosmology.
"Eleven short chapters, take the reader through Huang’s arguments, and provide very nice summaries of various topics: superfluidity, quantum field theory, renormalisation, general relativity, cosmology. This book proves to be a fitting finale to the writings of a lucid expositor and creative thinker."
Contemporary Physics
Kerson Huang, Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT, was born in Nanning, China, in 1928. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from MIT in 1953 under the supervision of V F Weisskopf, and spent 1956–1957 as a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he worked on the quantum hard-sphere Bose gas with C N Yang and T D Lee. He has authored a number of physics textbooks, including Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, and Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Fields. After retiring from teaching in 1999, he has worked with C C Lin on a new approach to protein folding. Recently he has proposed a theory of dark energy and dark matter, of which this book is an introduction.