Planck Scale Pioneers: Article Series

I’ll be sharing a series of articles highlighting key milestones in our quest to understand reality at the profound Planck scale level. It is called Planck Scale Pioneers: Article Series. Recently, I revisited some of my writings from around 20 years ago and was struck by the importance of direct communication — hearing stories straight from those at the forefront of certain discoveries. This series is inspired by that spirit, aiming to review some key milestones and explore why the idea of a deeper Planck scale makes sense to me.

This journey will follow a roughly chronological order, though I may occasionally change or skip topics as needed. Below is the initial list of topics. I welcome your suggestions for additions, removals, or replacements. Note that the last three entries are fixed and will remain in their current positions.

I’m excited to embark on this exploration with you all. Your insights and feedback will be invaluable as we delve into these fascinating concepts. Stay tuned for the first article soon!

Planck Scale Pioneers: Article Series Title List:

  1. Max Planck, Planck Units, and the Quantum Revolution
  2. Henri Poincaré and the Quantum Discontinuity: The Concept of Fundamental Time
  3. Einstein’s Quest for Unification: Relativity Meets Quantum Mechanics
  4. Dimensional Analysis and the Quest for Fundamental Scales
  5. Kaluza-Klein Theory: Early Attempts to Unify Gravity and Electromagnetism
  6. Weyl’s Gauge Symmetry: The Foundation of Modern Field Theory
  7. The Birth of Quantum Field Theory
  8. Arthur March’s Modified Geometry in Quantum Field Theory
  9. Heisenberg’s Advocacy for Fundamental Lengths
  10. Dirac’s 1930s Insights: Revisiting Faster-Than-Light Signals, Electron Structure, and Magnetic Monopoles
  11. Hartland Snyder’s Non-Commutative Space-Time
  12. Dirac’s 1951 Proposal on Lorentz Symmetry Violation
  13. Einstein and Bergmann’s Revival: The Fifth Dimension and Kaluza-Klein Theory
  14. Quantum Entanglement and the EPR Paradox
  15. The Detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
  16. Sakharov’s Induced Gravity: Vacuum Fluctuations and the Planck Scale
  17. The Standard Model: Unifying Particle Physics
  18. Color Charge Confinement: Gribov Horizons and QCD Dynamics
  19. String Theory: Quantum of Gravitational Field
  20. Loop Quantum Gravity: Quantum of Geometry
  21. Grand Unification Theories: The Quest for a Unified Force
  22. Black Hole Thermodynamics: Hawking Radiation, Information Paradox, and Beyond
  23. The Casimir Effect: Quantum Forces in a Vacuum
  24. Quantum Foam: Wheeler’s Concept of Space-Time at the Planck Scale
  25. Faddeev Popov Quantization: Are Ghosts Real?
  26. The Space-Time Code Idea
  27. Neutrino Oscillations: Evidence for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  28. Noncommutative Geometry: Extending Geometry to the Planck Scale
  29. The Holographic Principle: Encoding Information at the Planck Scale
  30. Beyond Lie Algebra: Quantum Groups
  31. Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity
  32. The Muon g-2 Experiment: Searching for New Physics
  33. Emergent Gravity: Gravity as an Emergent Phenomenon
  34. Preon Models: Sub-Quark Constituents of Matter
  35. Dirac’s Large Numbers Hypothesis: Cosmic Coincidences and the Planck Scale
  36. Doubly Special Relativity: Modifying Space-Time at High Energies
  37. Jordan’s Conformal Field Theory
  38. Lattice Gauge Theory: First Principles Hadron Masses Computation
  39. Gravitational Waves: A New Window into the Universe
  40. The Koide Formula: A Curious Relationship Between Lepton Masses
  41. Minimal Length in Quantum Gravity: Limits on Spacetime
  42. The Amplitudehedron: A New Way to Think About Particle Interactions
  43. Emergence Theory: Complex Systems and the Planck Scale
  44. Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: A Universe with Infinite Cycles
  45. Wolfram Physics: Reconstructing the Universe with Computation
  46. Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: Testing Theories at High Energies
  47. Quantum Holography: Storing Information in Quantum Systems
  48. Quantized Inertia: An Approach to Inertia and Gravity
  49. Planck Stars: Black Holes and Quantum Gravity
  50. Quantum Zeno Effect: Freezing Quantum States
  51. Axions to Dark Phonons: Dark Matter Candidates
  52. Quasicrystals at Deeper Scales: Quasicrystalline Spin Networks/Foams
  53. Hadron Masses from Planck Scale Tiling Spaces
  54. Quasicrystals at Large Scale: Relaxing Cosmological Tensions