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It seems likely that quantum dynamical law doesnot have a separate objective existence, but is oneaspect of the quantum process of nature, amatter-spacetime-dynamics unity, and is not onlyvariable, but may be the only variable. This is oneresult of a systematic application of the criteria fora group contraction given by Inonu and Wigner (1952).They point out that nonsemisimplicity is circumstantial evidence for a group contraction in which somecoupling coefficient has been taken to a singular limit.In their example, the coupling coefficient is c and thegroup contraction c → ∞ passes from special to Galilean relativity.

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Finkelstein, D.R. Third Relativity. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 38, 2937–2940 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026656015339

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