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To: Old Professer
By this definition there is no uniformity; it must all be an illusion.

The gauge theories of particle physics suggest that there is a "natural" scale of order the Planck length. It is entirely possible that the objects we take to be pointlike are actually extended somehow over a scale equal to the Planck scale. (Many "theories of everything" such as superstring theories exploit this.) Back when the radius of the universe was of this order, I could imagine a state of true and perfect uniformity.

154 posted on 01/12/2002 4:25:37 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The gauge theories of particle physics suggest that there is a "natural" scale of order the Planck length. It is entirely possible that the objects we take to be pointlike are actually extended somehow over a scale equal to the Planck scale. (Many "theories of everything" such as superstring theories exploit this.) Back when the radius of the universe was of this order, I could imagine a state of true and perfect uniformity.

Would you happen to be speaking of supersymmetry?

-The Hajman-
159 posted on 01/12/2002 7:54:41 PM PST by Hajman
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