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General relativity and matter: a spinor field theory from fermis to light-years

By M. Sachs

Book information

Publisher
D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston
Year
1982
ISBN
9027713812, 9789027713810
LCC
QC173.6 .S24 1982
Open Library ID
OL3487977M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3090319 bytes)
Series
Fundamental theories of physics
Edition
1
Pages
259\259
Library
mendelian
DPI
600
Orientation
no
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50
Физика;Теория относительности и альтернативные тео

Description

Gravity and Electromagnetism are now naturally married in a brilliant re-derivation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Sachs uncovers a long forgotten paper by Einstein and Mayer that holds the secret. But Einstein missed its fundamental importance. The vector basis used by Einstein in deriving the General Theory is incomplete. Just as Maxwell (and Tait) used the more complete basis of quaternions in deriving Maxwell's equations, Sachs builds a complete theory of General Relativity but using a quaternionic basis. Hamilton and his quaternions are finally vindicated.... The additional key insight is that Sachs realises that Einstein needed to eliminate the discrete symmetries of reflections in space and time.... Sachs can lay a strong claim to having merged all the known forces in this brilliant work....

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