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SUMMARY:Physics in non-archimedean space-time - Professor V. S. Varadaraja
 n (UCLA)
DTSTART:20090424T133000Z
DTEND:20090424T150000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Innes
DESCRIPTION:Physicists believe that in the ultra-small scale of Planck len
 gth and  \nPlanck time\, no measurements are possible. Hence the structure
  of  \nspace-time as the background for events is itself an unknown which 
  \nhas to be understood first. In 1987 Igor Volovich proposed the  \nhypot
 hesis that world geometry at this scale is non-archimedean. In  \nthis tal
 k I shall discuss some mathematical questions that are  \ninspired by this
  idea. I shall try to be non-technical and formulate  \nwhat some of the m
 ain questions are.\n
LOCATION:MR15
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