Tag Archives: General Relativity

Is Line , Hook and Sinker, Dimensionally Leading to Soul Food?

Posted on November 21, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Oskar Klein (left) proposed in the 1920s that hidden spatial dimensions might influence observed physics. He poses with physicists George Uhlenbeck (middle) and Samuel Goudsmit in 1926 at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives I … Continue reading →

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A Quantum-Mechanical Discription of Gravity

Posted on November 17, 2004 by PlatoHagel

I do not know how much more generalized these views could have become from those who now look to what the physicists and theoreticians are doing in their questions for explaining the nature of the reality we are encountering. If … Continue reading →

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2004 Promises to be an Exceptionally Exciting Year in General Relativity and Gravitation

Posted on November 14, 2004 by PlatoHagel

But you shouldn’t imagine the mood as one of breathless anticipation. At least for the physicists present, a better description would be something like “skeptical curiosity”. None of them seemed to believe that Hawking could suddenly shed new light on … Continue reading →

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5th Dimensional Field Equations

Posted on November 1, 2004 by PlatoHagel

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/seahras/images/Kaluza.jpeg In 1919, Kaluza sent Albert Einstein a preprint — later published in 1921 — that considered the extension of general relativity to five dimensions. He assumed that the 5-dimensional field equations were simply the higher-dimensional version of the vacuum … Continue reading →

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