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arXiv:1301.3923physics.gen-ph

A sum rule for charged elementary particles

Gerd Leuchs, Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

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Abstract

There may be a link between the quantum properties of the vacuum and the parameters describing the properties of light propagation, culminating in a sum over all types of elementary particles existing in Nature weighted only by their squared charges and independent of their masses. The estimate for that sum is of the order of 100.

arXiv comments
Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal D
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DOI
doi:10.1140/epjd/e2013-30577-8
Subjects
physics.gen-phGeneral Physics

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    • arXiv preprints at [0,1]. While interesting results, this is by no means groundbreaking work, and as long as we don’t understand the relation between gravity and quantum mechanics, it is impossible to draw conclusions regarding the sort-of-obvious FTL travel lurking here. [0]…

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