Condensates: A Bridge to Quantum Gravity
Abstract
Particle accelerators have carried fundamental physics to remarkable precision, but the Planck scale remains fifteen orders of magnitude beyond any foreseeable collider. We argue that this impasse is not a temporary shortfall but an insurmountable one. The way out runs through condensed matter physics: laboratory tests of generalized uncertainty relations, analog systems, and --- most provocatively --- frameworks in which spacetime itself is a condensate. We review the string-loop picture, in which quantization turns the world sheet into a three-dimensional fractal, the corpuscular description of black holes as self-sustained graviton condensates, and the phase-transition structure connecting the Riemannian phase to a pre-geometric one. The conclusion is deliberately provocative: the question of quantum gravity is no longer a question of energy, but of crossing the bridge.
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BibTeX
@misc{nicolini2026condensates,
title = {{Condensates: A Bridge to Quantum Gravity}},
author = {Piero Nicolini},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28789},
eprint = {2609.28789},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28789},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Condensates: A Bridge to Quantum Gravity
AU - Piero Nicolini
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28789
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28789
AB - Particle accelerators have carried fundamental physics to remarkable precision, but the Planck scale remains fifteen orders of magnitude beyond any foreseeable collider. We argue that this impasse is not a temporary shortfall but an insurmountable one. The way out runs through condensed matter physics: laboratory tests of generalized uncertainty relations, analog systems, and --- most provocatively --- frameworks in which spacetime itself is a condensate. We review the string-loop picture, in which quantization turns the world sheet into a three-dimensional fractal, the corpuscular description of black holes as self-sustained graviton condensates, and the phase-transition structure connecting the Riemannian phase to a pre-geometric one. The conclusion is deliberately provocative: the question of quantum gravity is no longer a question of energy, but of crossing the bridge.
ER -