A Stringy Nature Needs Just Two Constants
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 2 (3), 199-204
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/2/3/006
Abstract
Dual string theories of everything, being purely geometrical, contain only two fundamental constants: c, for relativistic invariance, and a length λ, for quantization. Planck's and Newton's constants appear only through Planck's length, a "calculable" fraction of λ. Only the existence of a light sector breaks a "reciprocity" principle and unification at λ, which is also the theory's cut-off.Keywords
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