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  2. Loop quantum gravity - Wikipedia

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    In loop quantum gravity (LQG), a spin network represents a "quantum state" of the gravitational field on a 3-dimensional hypersurface. The set of all possible spin networks (or, more accurately, "s-knots" – that is, equivalence classes of spin networks under diffeomorphisms) is countable; it constitutes a basis of LQG Hilbert space.

  3. Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The spin of a particle may be used to define a handedness, or helicity, for that particle, which, in the case of a massless particle, is the same as chirality. A symmetry transformation between the two is called parity transformation. Invariance under parity transformation by a Dirac fermion is called chiral symmetry.

  4. Chiral symmetry breaking - Wikipedia

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    In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking generally refers to the dynamical spontaneous breaking of a chiral symmetry associated with massless fermions. This is usually associated with a gauge theory such as quantum chromodynamics, the quantum field theory of the strong interaction, and it also occurs through the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism in the electroweak interactions of the standard ...

  5. Yukawa interaction - Wikipedia

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    (It is a non-trivial result of quantum field theory [2] that the exchange of even-spin bosons like the pion (spin 0, Yukawa force) or the graviton (spin 2, gravity) results in forces always attractive, while odd-spin bosons like the gluons (spin 1, strong interaction), the photon (spin 1, electromagnetic force) or the rho meson (spin 1, Yukawa ...

  6. Twistor theory - Wikipedia

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    It has a physical interpretation as the space of massless particles with spin. It is the projectivisation of a 4-dimensional complex vector space , non-projective twistor space T {\displaystyle \mathbb {T} } , with a Hermitian form of signature (2, 2) and a holomorphic volume form .

  7. Ashtekar variables - Wikipedia

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    Ashtekar variables correspond to the choice = (the negative of the imaginary number, ), is then called the chiral spin connection. The reason for this choice of spin connection, was that Ashtekar could much simplify the most troublesome equation of canonical general relativity – namely the Hamiltonian constraint of LQG .

  8. Supersymmetry - Wikipedia

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    Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin and particles with half-integer spin ().It proposes that for every known particle, there exists a partner particle with different spin properties. [1]

  9. Gravitoelectromagnetism - Wikipedia

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    Consider a toroidal mass with two degrees of rotation (both major axis and minor-axis spin, both turning inside out and revolving). This represents a "special case" in which gravitomagnetic effects generate a chiral corkscrew-like gravitational field around the object. The reaction forces to dragging at the inner and outer equators would ...