Physics and Geometry
Abstract
Our understanding of the four basic concepts of Physics -- space, time, matter and force -- has undergone radical change in the course of work on unification, starting with Maxwell's unification of electricity with magnetism, all the way to present day string theory. What started as four independent concepts, with space and time postulated and the possible forms of matter and force arbitrarily chosen, now appear as different aspects of a rich and novel dynamically determined structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0401092,
title = {Physics and Geometry},
author = {Peter G. O. Freund},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0401092},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
This paper is based on invited talks given by the author at the Gunnar Nordstr\"{o}m Symposium on Theoretical Physics at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland on August 28, 2003 and at the Freydoon Mansouri Memorial Session of the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, on September 13, 2003