A New Approach to the Geometrization of Matter

Abstract

We show that the sum over geometries in the Lorentzian 4-D state sum model for quantum GR in [1] includes terms which correspond to geometries on manifolds with conical singularities. Natural approximations suggest that they can be interpreted as gauge bosond for the standard model, plus fermions plus matter.

arXiv comment9 pages, latex no figs

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