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A QUANTUM THEORY OF GRAVITY BASED ON A COMPOSITE MODEL OF LEPTONS AND QUARKS

B. A. ROBSON

Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301311018198Cited by:11 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

A quantum theory of gravity, based upon a composite model of leptons and quarks, is presented. The model treats leptons and quarks as composites of three kinds of spin- particles (rishons) and/or their antiparticles. A strong color force, mediated by massless hypergluons, binds rishons and/or antirishons together to form colorless leptons or colored quarks, the fundamental particles of the Standard Model. The new model provides a qualitative understanding of the mass hierarchy of the three generations of leptons and quarks. An earlier conjecture that the residual interaction of the strong color force acting between any two colorless particles be identified with the corresponding gravitational interaction, is shown to lead approximately to Newton's law of gravitation.

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PACS: 04.50.Kd, 12.38.-t, 12.60.-i, 12.60.Rc

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