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CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PLANCK SCALE

B. G. SIDHARTH

B. G. SIDHARTH

International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences Hyderabad, India

International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences Hyderabad, Udine, Italy

B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad — 500 063, India

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301306003953Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is taken for granted in modern high energy approaches, that the Planck scale is the minimum scale. We investigate why this should be so, and provide a rationale for its numerical value.

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