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Gravity's weight on unification

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Much research in theoretical physics is inspired at least in part by the idea of unifying all of the fundamental forces of nature. An analysis of how gravity affects other forces at subnuclear scales has major implications for that idea. See Article p.56

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Amelino-Camelia, G. Gravity's weight on unification. Nature 468, 40–41 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468040a

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  1. The Einsteinâ&#x80&#x99s golden dream is possible, it is exactly longitude´s quantum of action forgotten where the topological congruence of physics becomes clearer, by fundamental description of gravity on the basis of their implications for unification. it should inevitably be and its absence has been one of main the theoretical limitations of the physical theory until today.
    The theoretical discovery of Dimensional Primitive Octet of Matter, the 4th Thermodynamic Principle, the Quantum Hexet of Matter, the Global Hexagonal Subsystem of Fundamental Constants of Energy and the Measurement or Connected Global Scale or Universal Existential Interval of the Matter is that it is possible to be arrived at a global formulation of the four â&#x80&#x9cforcesâ&#x80&#x9d or fundamental interactions of nature. [The 4th Thermodynamic Principle AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 905 pp. 185-187. April 28, 2007.]
    In Nature there is only one interaction or force that we have discovered energetic-longitudinal constant in the four field modalities gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak, with their respective transmission entities. This approach can be perfectly extended to gluonic field of the quarks.
    Where it is essential to understand that it is not the equivalence of charges or the equivalence of the corresponding fields, but the conjunction of both factors. Then, as a result, we get the Unified Equation of the Global Strong-Electromagnetic-Weak-Gravitational Nexus convergent in the constant energetic-longitudinal. Its absence has made impossible for science up to now to warn about the cited global link.
    In the unified equation only from experimental values will it be possible to evaluate the strong charge and the weak charge, the strong field and the weak field. Notwithstanding, the equivalent way can be achieved upon the theoretical base of the laws of dimensional equivalence. Besides, the relation between the constants of magnetic, electrical and gravitational field can be understood as a nexus mass-length. [AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 905 pp. 182-184. April 28, 2007.]
    This way, the Unique Generalized Force is a certain function of the distance, process that does not take place at the level of Planckâ&#x80&#x99s energy [AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 905 pp. 255-256. April 28, 2007.], without strictly depending energetic-longitudinal constant, a volumetric unique generalized force and their relationship with volumetric a constant accelerations universal. It allow to enunciate the Kepler´s Fourth Law and its relation with the Fourth Principle of Thermodynamics. [AIP Conference Proceedings 1018 pp. 67-73.]
    â&#x80&#x9cWorld is one, is one; but it is one Arithmetic-Geometric-Topological-Dimensional and Structural-Cellular-Dynamic one, simultaneously.â&#x80&#x9d

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