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ULTRAQUANTUM DYNAMICS∗ 3 a a b a James Baugh , David Ritz Finkelstein , Andrei Galiautdinov , Mohsen Shiri-Garakani 0 0 2 r p a A School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 3 b Department of Mathematics and Science, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA 30501 1 v 1 3 0 Abstract 4 0 ′ ′′ 3 Segal proposed ultraquantum commutation relations with two ultraquantum constants ¯h , h¯ besides 0 / Planck’s quantum constant ¯h and with a variable i. The Heisenberg quantum algebra is a contraction — h t - in a more general sense than that of In¨on¨u and Wigner — of the Segal ultraquantum algebra. The usual p e ′ ′′ h constant i arises as a vacuum order-parameter in the quantum limit ¯h , h¯ →0. One physical consequence : v i is a discrete spectrum for canonical variables and space-time coordinates. Another is an interconversion of X r a time and energy accompanying space-time meltdown (disorder), with a fundamental conversion factor of some kilograms of energy per second. Keywords: ultraquantum, group contraction, chronon, ∗Based on a talk presented to IARD 2002, The Third Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics, June 24 - 26, 2002 at Howard University. A fuller account of the work is in preparation. 1 1 Segal Doctrine A group that is not semisimple