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On 3 dec, 16:22, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/conferences/qgsquared-2008/
> 2008 - Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity Conference
> Monday June 30th - Friday July 4th 2008
> University of Nottingham, UK
> Topics:
> Quantum gravity, including loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, 1+1
> and 2+1 quantum gravity, perturbative approaches and other discrete
> approaches.
> Quantum geometry, including physical aspects of non-commutative
> geometry, quantum groups and quantum topology. Non-commutative field
> theory and DEFORMED SPECIAL RELATIVITY.
> Scientific Committee
> Victor Aldaya (Granada)
> Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State)
> John Baez (UC Riverside)
> Jürg Fröhlich (ETH, Zürich)
> Harald Grosse (Vienna)
> Shahn Majid (QMUL)
> Carlo Rovelli (Marseille)
> Thomas Schücker (Provence)
> Lee Smolin (Perimeter)
>
> Bravo Baez bravo Smolin bravo two Albert Einsteins of our generation
> (Hawking and Tom Roberts are no longer two Albert Einsteins of our
> generation)! But how are you going to deform special relativity, oh
> Baez and Smolin?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly-special_relativity
> "Doubly-special relativity -- also called deformed special relativity
> or, by some, extra-special relativity -- is a modified theory of
> special relativity in which there is not only an observer-independent
> maximum velocity (the speed of light), but an observer-independent
> minimum length (the Planck length)."
>
> Bravo Baez bravo Smolin bravo two Albert Einsteins of our generation
> (Hawking and Tom Roberts are no longer two Albert Einsteins of our
> generation)! But don't forget, oh Baez and Smolin, to try another
> deformation based on a single assumption:
>
> "Doubly-special relativity -- also called deformed special relativity
> or, by some, extra-special relativity -- is a modified theory of
> special relativity in which there is an observer-dependent speed of
> light (c'=c+v)."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

Pentcho,

I assume you  missed the lightspeed ( extiction) discussion on this
forum and others: see:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/529f48c450d8d681/99ed7da120b7fff1?lnk=gst&q=vuyk#99ed7da120b7fff1

http://metaresearch.org/msgboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=999

http://bigbang-entanglement.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-small-anomalies-could-influence.html


Leo Vuyk.