Some Speculations on the Ultimate Planck Energy

Abstract

The inability to achieve in the present universe, via electromagnetic or gravitational acceleration, Planck energies for elementary particles is suggested on the basis of several, some relatively sophisticated, failed attempts. This failure is essential for schemes were the superplanckian regime for the energies of elementary particles is ``Unphysical''. The basic observation is that this failure to achieve superplanckian energies naturally occurs in our universe of finite age and horizon. It does tie up in a mysterious fashion these cosmological quantities and elementary physics parameters such as the masses of the lightest charged fermions.