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A finite relativistic quantum space-time is constructed. Its unit element is a spin pair with Palev statistics associated with an orthogonal group.
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Acknowledgements
To Roger Penrose and Richard Feynman for kindly showing me their seminal spin quantizations of space and space-time before publication.
To O. B. Bassler, James Baugh, Walter L. Bloom, Jr., Dustin Burns, David Edwards, Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein, Andrei Galiautdinov, Dennis Marks, Zbigniew Oziewicz, Tchavdar Dimitrov Palev, Heinrich Saller, Stephen Selesnick, Abraham Sternlieb, Sarang Shah, and Frank (Tony) Smith, for helpful and enjoyable discussions.
To Lynn Margulis for introducing me to post-Darwinian symbiogenetic evolution in her Lindisfarne lectures.
To Cecylia Arszewski for leading me to Unger’s most helpful radical pragmatism.
To Prof. V. K. Dobrev for inviting me to this retreat of the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
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Finkelstein, D.R. (2013). Palev Statistics and the Chronon. In: Dobrev, V. (eds) Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 36. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54270-4_3
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