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What is Special About the Planck Mass?

2007/06/30 by C. Sivaram, Sivaram, C.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.0058

19 pages, 27 equations

arxiv created 2007/06/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Planck introduced his famous units of mass, length and time a hundred years ago. The many interesting facets of the Planck mass and length are explored. The Planck mass ubiquitously occurs in astrophysics, cosmology, quantum gravity, string theory, etc. Current aspects of its implications for unification of fundamental interactions, energy dependence of coupling constants, dark energy, etc. are discussed.

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