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Small-scale structure of spacetime and its implications

Dawood Kothawala
- 25 Apr 2019 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 6, pp 1950079
TLDR
If there exists a lower bound l 0 to spacetime intervals which is Lorentz-invariant, then the effective description of spacetime that incorporates such a lower-bound must necessarily be nonlocal.
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If there exists a lower bound l0 to spacetime intervals which is Lorentz-invariant, then the effective description of spacetime that incorporates such a lower bound must necessarily be nonlocal. Su...

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