Particles, Waves and Vacuum in Five Dimensions: A Status Report

2012/05/20 by Paul S. Wesson, Wesson, Paul S. · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.4452

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Abstract

Since the 5D canonical metric embeds all 4D vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations, I review its application to the cosmological 'constant', quantized particles, deBroglie waves, scalar fields and wave-particle duality. There are several ways to ra-tionalize these things using an extra dimension. A possible explanation of wave-particle duality is that an observed particle manifests two isometries of flat 5D space in different 4D ways, one with waves and one without.

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