Planck-scale physics: Facts and beliefs

DOI10.1007/S10699-006-9102-3MaRDI QIDQ2426142zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Diego Meschini

Publication date 21 April 2008

Published in Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601097

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional analysisPlanck's unitsquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The relevance of the Planck scale to a theory of quantum gravity has become a worryingly little examined assumption that goes unchallenged in the majority of research in this area. However, in all scientific honesty, the significance of Planck's natural units in a future physical theory of spacetime is only a plausible, yet by no means certain, assumption. The purpose of this article is to clearly separate fact from belief in this connection.

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