Offering a brief description of Finkelstein's approach to quantum theory and some of its ramifications, this text specifically examines his suggestion that some sort of quantum-set-like structure should underlie our macroscopic perception of spacetime, developing it to the point where a proportion of fundamental physics (for a massless world) may be formally derived from the ground up. In detail, a model of what Finkelstein has called a "quantum net", in conjunction with a single Schwinger-like dynamical principle, gives rise to the standard Langrangians for: massless Dirac fermions; general relativity; and Yang-Mills fields for the gauge groups SU(n), n = 3,4. These Langrangians emerge replete with (Feynman) gauge-fixing terms and ghost fields.
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- An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Ian J. R. Aitchison in Back Matter
- The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume 1) by Steven Weinberg in Back Matter
- Noncommutative Geometry by Alain Connes in Back Matter
- Orthomodular Lattices (London Mathematical Society Monographs) by G. Kalmbach in Back Matter
- Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) by J. C. Taylor in Back Matter
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