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Article #16058Re: Crystalline vacuum (David Ritz Finkelstein et al)
From: Todd Desiato
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:00
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Where is this web site, with these papers? Thanks, Todd D. patanie@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <77h2nt$mbc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >1997 > >THE ADAMANTINE AETHER > >David Ritz Finkelstein > >[TeX][Postscript] > >Abstract: > >We describe the vacuum as a crystalline hierarchy of creations and >annihilations, without the usual underlying absolute set of spacetime points. >What goes on in nature according to this theory is the generation of quantum >spacetime points out of their immediate predecessors. The causal connections >among points are just their family tree: Topology is genealogy. The physical >fields and quanta are smoothed descriptions of these connections or of their >departure from the vacuum mode, ripples on the face of the vacuum. A >hypercubic unit cell provides the correct spacetime symmetries with the >correct internal quark symmetries. Thought experiments suggest that the main >limit to the precision of spacetime coordinates is a Compton time, not the >Planck time. This makes room for the fundamental quantum of time to appear at >presently accessible energies. > > > >REALIZATIONS OF CAUSAL MANIFOLDS BY QUANTUM FIELDS > >Heinrich Saller > >[TeX][Postscript] > >Abstract: > >Quantum mechanical operators and quantum fields are interpreted as >realizations of timespace manifolds. Such causal manifolds are parametrized >by the classes of the positive unitary operations in all complex operations, >i.e. by the homogenous spaces D(n)=GL(C^n_R)/U(n) with n=1 for mechanics and >n=2 for relativistic fields. The rank n gives the number of both the discrete >and continuous invariants used in the harmonic analysis, i.e. two >characteristic masses in the relativistic case. 'Canonical' field theories >with the familiar divergencies are inappropriate realizations of the real >4-dimensional causal manifold D(2). Faithful timespace realizations do not >lead to divergencies. In general they are reducible, but nondecomposable - in >addition to representations with eigenvectors (states, particle) they >incorporate principal vectors without a particle (eigenvector) basis as >exemplified by the Coulomb field. > > > >TOPOLOGY AT THE PLANCK LENGTH > >John Madore, L.A. Saeger > >[TeX][Postscript] > >Abstract: > >A basic arbitrariness in the determination of the topology of a manifold at >the Planck length is discussed. An explicit example is given of a "smooth" >change in topology from the 2-sphere to the 2-torus through a sequence of >noncommuting geometries. Applications are considered to the theory of >D-branes within the context of the proposed M(atrix) theory. > > > >1996 > >BENEATH GAUGE > >David Ritz Finkelstein, Heinrich Saller, and Zhong Tang > >[TeX][Postscript] > >Abstract: > >Seeking a relativistic quantum infrastructure for gauge physics, we analyze >spacetime into three levels of quantum aggregation analogous to atoms, bonds >and crystals. Quantum spacetime points with no extension make up more complex >link units with microscopic extension, which make up networks with >macroscopic extension. Such a multilevel quantum theory implies >parastatistics for the lowest level entities without additional physical >assumptions. Any hypercubical vacuum mode with off-diagonal long-range order >that is covariant under POINCARE also has bonus internal symmetries somewhat >like those of the standard model. A vacuum made with the dipole link proposed >earlier has too much symmetry. A quadrupole link solves this problem. > > > >HYPERCRYSTALLINE VACUA > >David Ritz Finkelstein, Heinrich Saller, and Zhong Tang > >[TeX][Postscript] > >Abstract: > >Let a quantum network be a Fermi-Dirac assembly of Fermi-Dirac assemblies >of...of quantum points, interpreted topologically. The simplest >quantum-network vacuum modes with exact conservation of relativistic >energy-momentum and angular momentum also support the local non-Abelian >groups of the standard model, torsion and gravity. The spacetime points of >these models naturally obey parastatistics. We construct a left-handed vacuum >network among others. > > > >QUANTUM RELATIVITY > >David Ritz Finkelstein > >Summary: > >The author presents a simple algebraic quantum language sharpening and >deepening that of Bohr, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, with its own >epistemology, modal structure, and connectives. The core of the language is >the semigroup of physical actions. The work extends quantum algebra from >first-order to higher-order propositions, classes and actions; from positive >to indefinite metrics; and from quantum systems to quantum sets, quantum >semigroups, and quantum groups. The author applies the extended quantum >theory to a spacetime structure, which was taken as a fixed part of the >classical framework of the original quantum theory. This leads to a simple >proposal connecting the internal variables of spin, color, and isospin with >the fine structure of spacetime. > >[Home][Top][Papers][Researchers][Links] > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Questions or comments regarding this website may be directed to Dr. Brian D. >Koberlein. Contents and Images of submitted papers are copyright via their >respective authors. Contents and Images of Webpages �1997 Louisburg College > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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