Wild Fractal Nature Of Spacetime, The: Smooth Quantum Gravity And Cosmology

Covering 20 years of Dr Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga's research, this book shall be viewed as a second volume to Exotic Smoothness and Physics (written in collaboration with Prof. Carl Brans). A prominent question that the author tries to find an answer to is, how does specific physics emerge from the abstract mathematics of 4-manifolds? The key idea to that question is Smooth Quantum Gravity, a theory based on very few principles and therefore easily understood. Through the application of this theory, a connection between geometry/topology and quantum physics is created. In The Wild Fractal Nature of Spacetime, Dr Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga explains Smooth Quantum Gravity and applies it to the standard cosmological model. Through that, the inflationary expansion of the cosmos is introduced, the cosmological constant is calculated, dark matter is shown as a direct consequence and the Big Bang is described as well. The entire concept of the cosmos is based on a model of spacetime, which is based on 4 simple axioms and thus uniquely defines it. As a result, measurable quantities such as the inflation rate and the cosmological constant can be calculated and compared with the measurement results of the PLANCK mission, for instance. However, the results on inflation theory, the cosmological constant and dimensional reduction can be understood and used independently from an exotic smoothness structure — no prior knowledge on the topic is required. The author recommends his book to scientists and interested students who see the world through the lens of geometry and physics.

Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga is a physicist, mathematician and author. After obtaining his Doctorate in Physics from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1997, he was recipient of the 1998 LASPACE grant at Loyola University New Orleans. Together with Carl Brans, he wrote the best-selling book Exotic Smoothness and Physics, which got published in 2007. Since developing an interest in physics when he was 12 years old, at least 50 of his papers were published in well-known journals. Like Albert Einstein and John Wheeler he searches for the connection between geometry and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that tries to describe this presumed connection is the main inspiration to write the book at hand. He currently holds a position as Senior Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and lives with his wife and daughter in Berlin, Germany. Asselmeyer-Maluga has a wide range of research interests from condense matter physics via quantum computing to quantum gravity and quantum field theory usually with a strong influence from topology. In 1991, he began his study of exotic smoothness structures and the topology of low-dimensional manifolds. He proved several versions of the Brans conjecture where he identifies the sources with knot complements and torus bundles. He proposed a connection between quantum gravity and smoothness structures, known as Smooth Quantum Gravity. Specifically, he is the first to precisely calculate the cosmological constant and other parameters of the standard model of cosmology.