The universe of chaos and quanta

In recent papers it was shown that stochastic processes in the universe as a whole lead to discrete space time at Compton scales as also non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics. In this paper, we deduce the Dirac equation and thence a unified formulation of quarks and leptons. In the process several puzzling empirical results and coincidences are shown to be a consequence of the theory. These include the discreteness of the charge, handedness of quarks, their fractional charge, confinement and masses and the handedness of neutrinos, the so-called accidental relation that the classical Kerr-Newman metric describes, the field of an electron including the purely quantum mechanical gyromagnetic ratio g = 2, as also the many large number coincidences made famous by Dirac and Weinberg's mysterious empirical formula that relates the pion mass to the Hubble Constant. A cosmology based on fluctuations related to the above stochastic space-time discretization, consistent with latest observations is also seen to follow. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.