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MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 171-181Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732311034840
Keywords
Emergent gravity; holographic principle; massive photon/graviton
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Research Corporation for Science Advancement
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If the information transfer between test particle and holographic screen in entropic gravity respects both the uncertainty principle and causality, a lower limit on the numb er of bits in the universe relative to its mass may be derived. Furthermore, these limits indicate particles that putatively travel at the speed of light - the photon and/or graviton-have a nonzero mass m >= 10(-68) kg. This result is found to be in excellent agreement with current experimental mass bounds on the graviton and photon, suggesting that entropic gravity may be the result of a (recent) softly-broken local symmetry. Stronger bounds emerge from consideration of ultra dense matter such as neutron stars, yielding limits of m >= 10(-48)-10(-50) kg, barely within the experimental photon range and outside that of the graviton. We find that for black holes these criteria cannot be satisfied, and suggest some possible implications of this result.
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