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Cosmological Curvature and the Planck Scale

January 30, 2019August 25, 2024 Deepak VaidLeave a comment

While reading up on anti-deSitter spaces in [1], I encountered the following quote attributed to Gauss by the author: “I have sometimes in jest expressed the wish that Euclidean geometry is not true. For then we would have an absolute a priori unit of measurement.” This is not just an empty wish. If quantum gravity… Continue reading Cosmological Curvature and the Planck Scale

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The Planck Scale May Be Closer Than It Appears

October 30, 2018 Deepak Vaid1 Comment

Objects in the rearview mirror may be closer than they seem. This statutory warning is familiar to anyone who has ever ridden in a passenger vehicle. Its intent is to warn the driver and the passengers to be careful while backing up in case the car collides with something which is closer than it actually seems in… Continue reading The Planck Scale May Be Closer Than It Appears

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Cosmological Curvature and the Planck Scale

The Planck Scale May Be Closer Than It Appears