A Stringy Nature Needs Just Two Constants



In PF, Marcus notes:
"I see that the whole contents of EPL from July thru December 1986 is
free to download until the end of the year. If you (or anyone else)
sees any other paper that might be of special historical interest,
please let us know"

Really this is the situation of some journals, whose free window
closes in December, or in July and December. So it is a good month to
notice it and point our relevant papers not in the ArXiV.

The paper I was intrigued about is

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0295-5075/2/3/006

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A Stringy Nature Needs Just Two Constants

G. Veneziano
CERN - Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract. Dual string theories of everything, being purely
geometrical, contain only two fundamental constants: c, for
relativistic invariance, and a length l, for quantization. Planck's
and Newton's constants appear only through Planck's length, a
"calculable" fraction of l. Only the existence of a light sector
breaks a "reciprocity" principle and unification at l, which is also
the theory's cut-off.
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The paper somehow rejects Planck constant, telling that measured
quantities can be related to Compton lengths instead. So he only needs
Planck lenght and c. Or Planck length and Planck time, as the quotient
produces c.

Pretty strange paper.

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