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Supersymmetry and Polytopes
We make an imaginative comparison between the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard
Model and the 24-cell polytope in four dimensions, the Octacube.Comment: Presented to the Workshop on Geometry and Physics: Supersymmetry.
Bilbao, Spain. May 200
Rejection of the Light Quantum: The Dark Side of Niels Bohr
Evidence is recalled of the strong opposition of Niels Bohr, at the time of
the Old Quantum Theory 1.913-25, to the Lichtquanten hypothesis of Einstein.
Some episodes with H.A. Kramers, J.C. Slater and W. Heisenberg are recollected;
Bohr's changing point of view is traced back to some philosophical antecedents
and to his endeavour to deduce quantum results from the Correspondence
Principle. Some consequences for the future interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics, specially to the Complementarity Principle, are considered.Comment: 15 page
Quantum gravity and minimum length
The existence of a fundamental scale, a lower bound to any output of a
position measurement, seems to be a model-independent feature of quantum
gravity. In fact, different approaches to this theory lead to this result. The
key ingredients for the appearance of this minimum length are quantum
mechanics, special relativity and general relativity. As a consequence,
classical notions such as causality or distance between events cannot be
expected to be applicable at this scale. They must be replaced by some other,
yet unknown, structure.Comment: 23 pages, RevTeX, few minor changes, published versio
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