What is Special About the Planck Mass?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-07-03 v1
Abstract
Planck introduced his famous units of mass, length and time a hundred years ago. The many interesting facets of the Planck mass and length are explored. The Planck mass ubiquitously occurs in astrophysics, cosmology, quantum gravity, string theory, etc. Current aspects of its implications for unification of fundamental interactions, energy dependence of coupling constants, dark energy, etc. are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0707.0058,
title = {What is Special About the Planck Mass?},
author = {C. Sivaram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0058},
year = {2007}
}