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Birth and death in Lineland or a purely geometric model of creation and annihilation of particles in low dimension
We consider a simple model of a one dimensional universe embedded in the Euclidean plane.In this model, a circle travelling at constant speed intersects the line in a pair of points which first separate and then rejoin.We interpret this as the creation and annihilation of a pair of particles, and …