Browsing by Author "Gibbons, Gary William"
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Maximum magnetic moment to angular momentum conjecture
Barrow, John David; Gibbons, Gary William (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2017-03-24)Conjectures play a central role in theoretical physics, especially those that assert an upper bound to some dimensionless ratio of physical quantities. In this paper we introduce a new such conjecture bounding the ratio ...
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Maximum Tension: with and without a cosmological constant
Barrow, John David; Gibbons, Gary William (OUPMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014-12-04)We discuss various examples and ramifications of the conjecture that there exists a maximum force (or tension) in general relativistic systems. We contrast this situation with that in Newtonian gravity, where no maximum ...