English

Transformations of units and world's geometry

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The issue of the transformations of units is treated, mainly, in a geometrical context. It is shown that Weyl-integrable geometry is a consistent framework for the formulation of the gravitational laws since the basic law on which this geometry rests is invariant under point-dependent transformations of units. Riemann geometry does not fulfill this requirement. Spacetime singularities are then shown to be a consequence of a wrong choice of the geometrical formulation of the laws of gravitation. This result is discussed, in particular, for the Schwrazschild black hole and for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology. Arguments are given that point at Weyl-integrable geometry as a geometry implicitly containing the quantum effects of matter. The notion of geometrical relativity is presented. This notion may represent a natural extension of general relativity to include invariance under the group of units transformations.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0004014,
  title  = {Transformations of units and world's geometry},
  author = {Israel Quiros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0004014},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

30 pages, Revtex, no figures. New material and references added