Originally posted by marcus
"the mountains of Algebraic Geometry are very beautiful at
this season. While there is still snow on the heights of Mount Galois
the three dimensions of space are beginning to appear on the lower slopes. Wish you were here"
By the way, the quotes are just stilistic, or were you actually quoting someone?
Lets inspect a bit more the lower slopes. As I put a QM argument in the other thread, and we have followed that area quantization plus classical gravity implies at least some bit of quantum mechanics, let's try now from this point of view.
We had that for a force G {m m' \over r^q}, the Area/time rule implies
2n=G^{\frac12-\frac1q} m^\frac12 r^{\frac32-\frac{q}2} <br />
c^{\frac3q-1} \hbar^{-\frac1q}
G, h and c are constants, but mc a momentum, and the other variable object is the distance r. So we obtain
p \approx {1 \over r^{3-q}}
And directly from r we have a natural interval t=r/c. Joining both equations we have a natural force
f=Dp/Dt\approx {1\over r^{4-q}}
If this force is to be identifyed with our initial force \approx {1 /r^q}, we get
4-q=q
And the only consistent force (excluding q=0, where the equation at h becomes undefined) is q=2, inverse square law.
The argument works for any area quantization, ie the G in Planck length does not need to coincide with the G in Newton force. Still, it is weaker than the one directly from quantum mechanics (at new thread) because here the momentum is not defined for the mediating particle, but for the kepler centre. Thus a bit of flaw.
[Edited]If we aim for a force from m', we can do a distintion between inertial mass and gravitational mass. Then the two forces can not be of the same exponent anymore; if d=2 (gravity as input) the new force is a confining F=K mm', with K=c^3/h. The magnitude is not unphysical (order of QCD string tension) but the meaning is, er, lacking. Surely one should concentrate in mediating particles.