Proof Found for Unifying Quantum Principle: His conjecture is called the a-theorem. It says that the number of ways in which quantum fields can be energetically excited (a) is always greater at high energies than at low energies...
Although lots of work has gone into relating short- and long-distance scales for particular quantum field theories, there are relatively few general principles that do this for all theories that can exist...
But Cardy's a-theorem could be one such principle. A version of it had already been proven in two dimensions, but Cardy proposed that it might hold in four dimensions--such as the three dimensions of space and one of time that exist in the space in which we live.
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