Talk:Planck matter

There are quite a few problems with this page. First, notability. The expression "Planck matter" appears to have been coined by Grigori Volovik and not to have much usage outside his papers (unlike, say, Leon Lederman's "God particle" designation for the Higgs boson, a term of comparable vagueness and informality).

Second, historical accuracy. Though the concept of "Planck matter" is attributed to Planck, there is far more of Volovik than of Planck in the definition provided. Planck knew nothing of "quantum gravity", let alone "loop quantum gravity", and his views as indicated by Wikiquote seem closer to pantheistic idealism than to the geometric monism found here. The latter had its 19th-century antecedents but is really due to 20th-century thinkers like Einstein and Wheeler (and has assumed diverse new forms in today's era of string theory and uninhibited formal speculation).

There is also the question of whether Volovik's views are represented correctly here, but the real question is one of notability. There are many, many people proposing a particular approach to quantum gravity. Volovik is evidently in the camp of those who seek inspiration from analogous condensed-matter phenomena, which as a school of thought is big enough to warrant representation somewhere on Wikipedia. So I support a redirect of this page to a discussion of the "condensed-matter school of quantum gravity", once such a discussion has been found or created. Mporter (talk) 07:39, 29 June 2009 (UTC)