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Here we give a more detailed account of the part of the conference report that was devoted to reinterpreting the Einstein `unified models of gravity and electromagnetism' (1923) as the unified theory of dark energy (cosmological constant)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 A. T. Filippov

One of the important extensions of Riemann geometry is Weyl geometry, which is essentially based on the ideas of conformal invariance and nonmetricity. A similar non-Riemannian geometry was proposed by Erwin Schr\"{o}dinger in the late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Lei Ming , Shi-Dong Liang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Tiberiu Harko

We provide a gauge-invariant theory of gravitation in the context of Weyl Integrable Space-Times. After making a brief review of the theory's postulates, we carefully define the observers' proper-time and point out its relation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-31 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

Weyl gravity has been advanced in the recent past as an alternative to General Relativity (GR). The theory has had some success in fitting galactic rotation curves without the need for copious amounts of dark matter. To check the viability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 A. Edery , M. B. Paranjape

The logic of gauge theory is considered by tracing its development from general relativity to Yang-Mills theory, through Weyl's two gauge theories. A handful of elements---which for want of better terms can be called \emph{geometrical…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Alexander Afriat

General relativity can be formulated either as in its original geometrical version (Einstein, 1915) or as a field theory (Feynman, 1962). In the Feynman presentation of Einstein theory an hypothesis concerning the interaction of gravity to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Novello , V. A. De Lorenci

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity was proposed a little over a hundred years back. It remained a bedrock of twentieth century physics right up to Quantum Field Theory. However, the failure over several decades to provide a unified…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

We propose new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in $D$-dimensional space-times with symmetric connections. They are based on ideas of Weyl, Eddington and Einstein and, in particular, on Einstein's proposal to specify the space - time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 A. T. Filippov

Although the wish to unify theories into something more fundamental is omnipresent and compelling, nonetheless, in a sense, theories must first be unifiable. The reasons for the success of the unification of electricity and magnetism into a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 D Delphenich

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

Historians recently rehabilitated Einstein's "physical strategy" for General Relativity (GR). Independently, particle physicists similarly re-derived Einstein's equations for a massless spin 2 field. But why not a light \emph{massive} spin…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 J. Brian Pitts

We reconsider the status of the so-called second clock effect in Weyl gauge theories of gravity, which are invariant both under local Poincar\'e transformations and local changes of scale. In particular, we revisit and extend our previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-09 Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

Weyl conformal geometry is a gauge theory of scale invariance that naturally brings together the Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity. The SM embedding in this geometry is possible without new degrees of freedom beyond SM and Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-14 D. M. Ghilencea

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

On incorporating special relativity theory into an extended equivalence principle, post-Newtonian gravitational phenomena beyond that originally predicted by Einstein are predicted (required), such as geodetic and gravitomagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth Nordtvedt

We present some basic facts concerning simultaneity in both special and general relativity. We discuss Weyl's proof of the consistence of Einstein's synchronization convention and consider the general relativistic problem of assigning a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Minguzzi

We review the experimental evidence for Einstein's special and general relativity. A variety of high precision null experiments verify the weak equivalence principle and local Lorentz invariance, while gravitational redshift and other clock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Clifford M. Will

Einstein regarded as one of the triumphs of his 1915 theory of gravity --- the general theory of relativity --- that it vindicated the action--reaction principle, while Newtonian mechanics as well as his 1905 special theory of relativity…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Harvey R. Brown , Dennis Lehmkuhl

We revisit Weyl's metrication (geometrization) of electromagnetism. We show that by making Weyl's proposed geometric connection be pure imaginary, not only are we able to metricate electromagnetism, an underlying local conformal invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Philip D. Mannheim

During the ``long decade'' of transformation of mathematical physics between 1915 and 1930, H. Weyl interacted with physics in two highly productive phases and contributed to it, among others, by his widely read book on {\em Space - Time -…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz