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Continuum and discretum—Unified field theory and elementary constants

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Unitary field theories and “SUPER-GUT” theories work with an universal continuum, the structured spacetime of R. Descartes, B. Spinoza, B. Riemann, and A. Einstein, or a (Machian(1–3)) structured vacuum according the quantum theory of unitary fields (Dirac,(4,5) and Heisenberg(6–8)). The atomistic aspect of the substantial world is represented by the fundamental constants which are invariant against “all transformations” and which “depend on nothings” (Planck(9–11)). A satisfactory unitary theory has to involve these constants like the mathematical numbers. Today, Planck's conception of the three elementary constants ħ, c, and G may be the key to general relativistic quantum field theory like unitary theory. However, the elementary constants are a question of measurement-theory, also.

According to Popper's theory(12–16) of induction, such unitary theories are “universal explaining theories.” The fundamental constants involve the complementarity between the universal statements in unitary theory and the “basic statements” in the language of classical observables.

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Treder, HJ. Continuum and discretum—Unified field theory and elementary constants. Found Phys 22, 395–420 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883905

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