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Could deformed special relativity naturally arise from the semiclassical limit of quantum gravity?
Lee Smolin
A argument is described for how deformed or doubly special relativity may arise in the semiclassical limit of a quantum theory of gravity. We consider a generic quantum theory of g…
Anomalous CMB polarization and gravitational chirality
Carlo R. Contaldi, Joao Magueijo, Lee Smolin
We consider the possibility that gravity breaks parity, with left and right handed gravitons coupling to matter with a different Newton's constant and show that this would affect t…
Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Lou Kauffman +1
We develop the idea that the particles of the standard model may arise from excitations of quantum geometry. A previously proposed topological model of preons is developed so that…
Matrix universality of gauge and gravitational dynamics
Lee Smolin
A simple cubic matrix model is presented, which has truncations that, it is argued, lead at the classical level to a variety of theories of gauge fields and gravity. These include…