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Predictions are derived for the upcoming AUGER and GLAST experiments
from a semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity. It is argued
that to first order in the Planck length the effect of quantum gravity
is to make the low energy effective spacetime metric energy
dependent. The diffeomorphism invariance of the semiclassical theory
forbids the appearance of a preferred frame of reference,
consequently the local symmetry of this energy-dependent effective
metric is a non-linear realization of the Lorentz transformations,
which renders the Planck energy observer independent. This gives a
form of deformed or doubly special relativity (DSR), previously
explored with Magueijo, called the rainbow metric. The argument is
general, and applies in all dimensions with and without
supersymmetry, and is, at least to leading order, universal for all
matter couplings. The argument is illustrated in detail in a specific
example in loop quantum gravity. A consequence of DSR realized with
an energy dependent effective metric is a helicity independent energy
dependence in the speed of light to first order in the Planck
length. However, thresholds for Tev photons and GZK protons are
unchanged from special relativistic predictions. These predictions of
quantum gravity are falsifiable by the upcoming AUGER and
GLAST experiments.
22 02 2005, ISCAP Seminar Room Pupin 908, 2:00 pm
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