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A hierarchy hypothesis

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Why attraction and repulsion between likes should not enjoy equal status in nature is considered. By postulating a hierarchy of isolated systems of finite radii whose associated charges form a geometric series with enormous imaginary common ratio, and by identifying a “universe” (the content of an infinite cosmos within a Hubble radius of an observer), an electron, and a neutrino as three consecutive members of the hierarchy (in fact the only three observable because of the uncertainty principle), it is possible to treat gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena as perfectly analogous and complementary for the overall structure of the cosmos. An isolated system behaves, from an external viewpoint, as an elementary particle, and from an internal viewpoint, as a universe. Remarkable relationships between physical constants emerge.

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Browne, P.F. A hierarchy hypothesis. Int J Theor Phys 15, 73–79 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807088

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