The Many Dimensions of Dimension
History and Philosophy of Physics
2009-11-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Some aspects of the history and impact of the dimension revolution are briefly surveyed, starting with Nordstrom's D=5 scalar gravity-electromagnetism unification.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0402105,
title = {The Many Dimensions of Dimension},
author = {S. Deser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0402105},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages. Invited lecture, Nordstrom Memorial Symposium, Helsinki, August 2003, to appear in Proceedings. Text improved, reference added