Operational Symmetries Basic Operations in Physics
This book describes the endeavour to relate the particle spectrum with representations of operational electroweak spacetime, in analogy to the atomic spectrum as characterizing representations of hyperbolic space. The spectrum of hyperbolic position space
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Operational Symmetries Basic Operations in Physics
Operational Symmetries
Heinrich Saller
Operational Symmetries Basic Operations in Physics
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Heinrich Saller Werner-Heisenberg Institute Max Planck Institute for Physics Munich, Bayern Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-58663-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58664-9
ISBN 978-3-319-58664-9
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Contents
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Introduction and Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Units 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5
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and Orders of Magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . External Interactions and Newton’s Unit. . . . . . . . . Speed of Light as Space-Time Hinge . . . . . . . . . . . Gravity and Maximal Speed of Action . . . . . . . . . . Quantum Structure and Planck’s Unit . . . . . . . . . . . Minimal Quantum of Action and Maximal Speed of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Intrinsic Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 The ðh; c; GÞ-System — Universal Units? . . . . . . . . 2.8 Electrodynamics and Sommerfeld’s Fine-Structure Constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 Binding Energies and Couplings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Electroweak Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.11 Units and Symmetry Normalizations . . . . . . . . . . . .
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