Nuclear Detonations as Probes of Hidden Superluminal Sectors
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| author | Svozil, Karl |
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| contents | We propose a highly speculative phenomenological framework in which nuclear detonations and high-energy collisions serve as probes for hidden sectors with effective superluminal propagation. Motivated by analogies between acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena, we stratify the physical description into three layers: a fundamental ``substrate'' layer, hidden-sector fields with extended causal cones, and the emergent Standard Model. We posit that the extreme, macroscopic stress-energy gradients generated by nuclear explosions might excite substrate or hidden modes that remain kinematically inaccessible to standard laboratory probes. This work unifies various exotic proposals -- including extra-dimensional shortcuts and trans-metric shockwaves -- into a single formalism, discussing the constraints imposed by causality and observation while outlining how such distinct high-energy regimes could complement one another in searching for physics beyond the emergent metric. |
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| spellingShingle | Nuclear Detonations as Probes of Hidden Superluminal Sectors Svozil, Karl High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We propose a highly speculative phenomenological framework in which nuclear detonations and high-energy collisions serve as probes for hidden sectors with effective superluminal propagation. Motivated by analogies between acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena, we stratify the physical description into three layers: a fundamental ``substrate'' layer, hidden-sector fields with extended causal cones, and the emergent Standard Model. We posit that the extreme, macroscopic stress-energy gradients generated by nuclear explosions might excite substrate or hidden modes that remain kinematically inaccessible to standard laboratory probes. This work unifies various exotic proposals -- including extra-dimensional shortcuts and trans-metric shockwaves -- into a single formalism, discussing the constraints imposed by causality and observation while outlining how such distinct high-energy regimes could complement one another in searching for physics beyond the emergent metric. |
| title | Nuclear Detonations as Probes of Hidden Superluminal Sectors |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21793 |