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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA ABIAN replies to INDRA
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.230803.10096@galois.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Principles (A1) and (A2). Reply to INDRA 11-14-92
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- In article <1992Nov15.203056.14720@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
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- >Indra, the real answer is that this is caused by the electromagnetic
- >force which has been understood for literally centuries. This
- >may sound like mere posturing, (I can even hear Mr. Abian now,
- >"you don't understand it so you call it electromagnetism"),
- >but electromagnetism was proved in the 1920s by a man whose
- >name begins with K that temporarily escapes me to actually be gravity
- >operating in 5 dimensions.
-
- You are clearly referring to Kaluza and Klein (two folks whose names
- begin with K!) but they proved no such thing, so this is thoroughly
- misleading. They indeed came up with a theory that explained
- electromagnetism in terms of gravity in 5 dimensions, but this theory
- has never been widely accepted, much less "proved".
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