ON WEAK INTERACTIONS AS SHORT-DISTANCE MANIFESTATIONS OF GRAVITY

2013/02/22 by Roberto Onofrio · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Fundamental interaction #Gravitation #Gravitational constant #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Planck length #Planck scale #Quantum #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Spacetime #Theoretical physics #Weak interaction #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732313500223

published as Modern Physics Letters A 28, 1350022 (2013)

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Abstract

We conjecture that weak interactions are peculiar manifestations of quantum gravity at the Fermi scale, and that the Fermi constant is related to the Newtonian constant of gravitation. In this framework one may understand the violations of fundamental symmetries by the weak interactions, in particular parity violations, as due to fluctuations of the spacetime geometry at a Planck scale coinciding with the Fermi scale. As a consequence, gravitational phenomena should play a more important role in the microworld, and experimental settings are suggested to test this hypothesis.

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