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hep-th2008★ 25 cited
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…
hep-th2006★ 68 cited
Quantum gravity and the standard model
Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson, Fotini Markopoulou, Lee Smolin
We show that a class of background independent models of quantum spacetime have local excitations that can be mapped to the first generation fermions of the standard model of parti…