• @thundermoose@lemmy.world
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    89 months ago

    The math here is beyond me, but this statement from the paper seems contradictory:

    The obtained equation is covariant in space–time and invariant with respect to any Planck scale. Therefore, the constants of the universe can be reduced to only two quantities: Planck length and Planck time.

    Planck time is derived from the speed of light and the gravitational constant. So wouldn’t there be at least four universal constants?

    • @mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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      49 months ago

      What they are doing is just nonsense. You can use the four normal constants: gravitational, speed of light, plancks constant, boltzman constant, or the Planck ones, also four (time, mass, length, temperature). What they do is just rewrite the G, c and h-bar, the only ones that appear here, in their equations and it turns out just only two appear in the equations. Which two? Planck length and “energy”, where planck energy is a combination of time and mass… so it is still three! All this nonsense to try to say something of no particular interest: if you look at a very small subset of expressions you can probably redefine some constants conviniently to get rid of others.