Some comments on the universal constant in DSR

2006/12/18 by Florian Girelli, Etera R. Livine · 7 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Constant (computer programming) #Cosmological constant #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Doubly special relativity #Four-force #Gravitation #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Planck constant #Planck length #Planck mass #Planck scale #Quantum #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Special relativity #Theoretical physics #Theory of relativity #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/67/1/012030

published in Journal of Physics Conference Series 67, 012030 (IOP Publishing) · 12 pages, Proceedings of DICE2006 (Piombino, Italy)

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Abstract

Deformed Special Relativity is usually presented as a deformation of Special Relativity accommodating a new universal constant, the Planck mass, while respecting the relativity principle. In order to avoid some fundamental problems (e.g. soccer ball problem), we argue that we should switch point of view and consider instead the Newton constant G as the universal constant.

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