Matter from Space
History and Philosophy of Physics
2009-10-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
General Relativity offers the possibility to model attributes of matter, like mass, momentum, angular momentum, spin, chirality etc. from pure space, endowed only with a single field that represents its Riemannian geometry. I review this picture of `Geometrodynamics' and comment on various developments after Einstein.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.2574,
title = {Matter from Space},
author = {Domenico Giulini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2574},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
37 Pages, 17 figures. Based on a talk delivered at the conference "Beyond Einstein: Historical Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century", September 2008 at the University of Mainz in Germany. To appear in the Einstein-Studies Series, Birkhaeuser, Boston. v2: Reference [7] added and typo in formula [42] corrected