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- From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA ABIAN replies to INDRA
- Keywords: Principles (A1) and (A2). Reply to INDRA 11-14-92
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.023054.3771@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:30:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.230803.10096@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.203056.14720@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
- >
- >>Indra, the real answer is that this is caused by the electromagnetic
- >
- >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".
-
- I stand corrected. When I wrote "proved" I meant it in the
- mathematical sense, not the experimental. (To tell the truth,
- I can't envision an experiment that would be _able_ to prove
- that these extrapolations are true). Given, though, what we
- know about gravity and how it works, the work is correct.
- As for its acceptance, the part I believe not to have been
- accepted is the result that the universe exists in 5 dimensions
- (see above comments on experimentalism). The actual mathematics
- is unassailable (at least _I_ can't assail it ;-), but the
- results it leads to may seem unacceptable. However, with the
- extra dimensions being proposed in superstring theory gaining
- more and more acceptance, perhaps a review of Kaluza and Klein
- and their ideas might be in the works!
-
- Jason
-