Planck mass

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Planck mass

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Superunification and the Planck era
…a Planck volume is a Planck mass (hc/G)^1/2, roughly 10⁻⁵ gram. An object of such mass would be a quantum black hole, with an event horizon close to both its own Compton length (distance over which a particle is quantum mechanically “fuzzy”) and the size of the cosmic horizon at…
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…a Planck volume is a Planck mass (hc/G)^1/2, roughly 10⁻⁵ gram. An object of such mass would be a quantum black hole, with an event horizon close to both its own Compton length (distance over which a particle is quantum mechanically “fuzzy”) and the size of the cosmic horizon at…
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