English

Paul Wesson and Space-Time-Matter Theory

History and Philosophy of Physics 2018-11-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A short scientific biography is given of physicist Paul Wesson (1949-2015), who published over 300 works encompassing the fields of astrobiology, astrophysics, geophysics, cosmology, and relativity; and who was particularly associated with a fully covariant version of Kaluza-Klein theory known as Space-Time-Matter theory, in which matter and energy in four dimensions are induced from empty space in higher dimensions, thus realizing Einstein's dream and unifying the gravitational field with its source.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.06568,
  title  = {Paul Wesson and Space-Time-Matter Theory},
  author = {James Overduin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06568},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Appendix from a forthcoming book by P.S. Wesson and J.M. Overduin, Principles of Space-Time-Matter: Cosmology, Particles and Waves in Five Dimensions (Singapore: World Scientific, 2018); https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10871

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