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SUMMARY:Physics in non-archimedean space-time - V. S. Varadarajan (UCLA)
DTSTART:20090424T133000Z
DTEND:20090424T143000Z
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CONTACT:Tom Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Physicists believe that in the ultra-small scale of Planck len
 gth and Planck time\, no measurements are possible. Hence the structure of
  space-time as the background for events is itself an unknown which has to
  be understood first. In 1987 Igor Volovich proposed the hypothesis that w
 orld geometry at this scale is non-archimedean. In this talk I shall discu
 ss some mathematical questions that are inspired by this idea. I shall try
  to be non-technical and formulate what some of the main questions are.
LOCATION:MR15
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