Quantum Mechanics and Gravity
Mendel Sachs: "Quantum Mechanics and Gravity"
Springer | English | Jan 12 2004 | ISBN: 3540008004 | 208 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book describes a paradigm change in modern physics from the philosophy and mathematical expression of the quantum theory to those of general relativity. The approach applies to all domains - from elementary particles to cosmology. The change is from the positivistic views in which atomism, nondeterminism and measurement are fundamental, to a holistic view in realism, wherein matter - electrons, galaxies, - are correlated modes of a single continuum, the universe. A field that unifies electromagnetism, gravity and inertia is demonstrated explicitly, with new predictions, in terms of quaternion and spinor field equations in a curved spacetime. Quantum mechanics emerges as a linear, flatspace approximation for the equations of inertia in general relativity.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. The Theory of General Relativity: Einstein's Formulation.
3. A Unified Field Theory.
4. Quantum Mechanics from a Theory of Inertial Mass in Relativity.
5. Electromagnetism
6. The Pauli Principle and Pair Creation/Annihilation
7. Atomic and Elementary Particle Physics.
8. Astrophysics and Cosmology in General Relativity
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Mendel Sachs: "Quantum Mechanics and Gravity"
Springer | English | Jan 12 2004 | ISBN: 3540008004 | 208 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book describes a paradigm change in modern physics from the philosophy and mathematical expression of the quantum theory to those of general relativity. The approach applies to all domains - from elementary particles to cosmology. The change is from the positivistic views in which atomism, nondeterminism and measurement are fundamental, to a holistic view in realism, wherein matter - electrons, galaxies, - are correlated modes of a single continuum, the universe. A field that unifies electromagnetism, gravity and inertia is demonstrated explicitly, with new predictions, in terms of quaternion and spinor field equations in a curved spacetime. Quantum mechanics emerges as a linear, flatspace approximation for the equations of inertia in general relativity.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. The Theory of General Relativity: Einstein's Formulation.
3. A Unified Field Theory.
4. Quantum Mechanics from a Theory of Inertial Mass in Relativity.
5. Electromagnetism
6. The Pauli Principle and Pair Creation/Annihilation
7. Atomic and Elementary Particle Physics.
8. Astrophysics and Cosmology in General Relativity
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