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jakks
Sep20-04, 10:56 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Alright,\n\nI\'ve learned that by compactification scale is usually meant the\ncharacteristic mass of states carrying compact momentum. But is this\nalso the scale at which the decompactification producing the observed\nfour-dimensional spacetime occurs?\n\n\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Alright,

I've learned that by compactification scale is usually meant the
characteristic mass of states carrying compact momentum. But is this
also the scale at which the decompactification producing the observed
four-dimensional spacetime occurs?