Particles, Waves and Vacuum in Five Dimensions: A Status Report
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2012-05-22 v1
Abstract
Since the 5D canonical metric embeds all 4D vacuum solutions of Einstein's equations, I review its application to the cosmological 'constant', quantized particles, deBroglie waves, scalar fields and wave-particle duality. There are several ways to ra-tionalize these things using an extra dimension. A possible explanation of wave-particle duality is that an observed particle manifests two isometries of flat 5D space in different 4D ways, one with waves and one without.
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@article{arxiv.1205.4452,
title = {Particles, Waves and Vacuum in Five Dimensions: A Status Report},
author = {Paul S. Wesson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4452},
year = {2012}
}