Abstract
A value of the finestructure constant at the unification eneigy is obtained by a dimensional analysis of quantum gravity and fluid dynamics. The derivation assumes that the vacuum is a superfluid made up of positive and negative Planck mass particles obeying an exactly nonrelativistic law of motion with Lorentz invariance a low energy approximation. The dimensional analysis presented gives a value for the finestructure constant in good agreement with the empirical value 1/α = 25.
Received: 2001-7-16
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 2001-10-1
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