Contents
Part I Fundamental Physics
1
Symmetries in the Standard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Jose Bernabeu
2
Going Beyond the Standard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. G. Sidharth
3
Using “Enhanced Quantization” to Bound the Cosmological
Constant, (for a Bound-on Graviton Mass), by Comparing
Two Action Integrals (One Being from General Relativity)
at the Start of Inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Andrew Walcott Beckwith
4
“Equat Causa Effectum” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Peter Enders
5
(Non-)Uniqueness of Einstein–Palatini Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Bert Janssen, Alejandro Jiménez-Cano, José Alberto Orejuela,
and Pablo Sánchez-Moreno
6
Ballistic Transport in Nanowires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
B. G. Sidharth and Abhishek Das
7
Gravitation by Condensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Jonathan J. Dickau
8
Dark Matter Anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
B. G. Sidharth and Abhishek Das
9
Before the Big Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
E. R. Siegel
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