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This is a paper about geometry and how one can derive several fundamental laws of physics from a simple postulate of geometrical nature. The method uses monogenic functions analysed in the algebra of 5-dimensional spacetime, exploring the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Monogenic functions are functions of null vector derivative and are here analysed in the geometric algebra of 5-dimensional spacetime, G(4,1), in order to derive several laws of fundamental physics. The paper introduces the working algebra…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Monogenic functions in the algebra of 5-dimensional spacetime have been used previously by the author as first principle in different areas of fundamental physics; the paper recovers that principle applying it to the hydrogen atom. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 Jose B. Almeida

The presentation makes use of geometric algebra, also known as Clifford algebra, in 5-dimensional spacetime. The choice of this space is given the character of first principle, justified solely by the consequences that can be derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose B. Almeida

The paper uses geometrical arguments to derive equations with relevance for cosmology; 5-dimensional spacetime is assumed because it has been shown in other works to provide a setting for significant unification of different areas of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-29 Jose B. Almeida

Physical geometry studies mutual disposition of geometrical objects and points in space, or space-time, which is described by the distance function $ d$, or by the world function $\sigma =d^{2}/2$. One suggests a new general method of the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Physical geometry studies mutual disposition of geometrical objects and points in space, or space-time, which is described by the distance function d, or by the world function \sigma =d^{2}/2. One suggests a new general method of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

The space-time geometry is considered to be a physical geometry, i.e. a geometry described completely by the world function. All geometrical concepts and geometric objects are taken from the proper Euclidean geometry. They are expressed via…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

One considers geometry with the intransitive equaivalence relation. Such a geometry is a physical geometry, i.e. it is described completely by the world function, which is a half of the squared distance function. The physical geometry…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-03-30 Yuri A. Rylov

It is the author's belief that a perfect theory will eventually be formulated, where geometry and physics become indistinguishable, so that the complete understanding of space properties, together with proper assignments between geometric…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Three different representation of the proper Euclidean geometry are considered. They differ in the number of basic elements, from which the geometrical objects are constructed. In E-representation there are three basic elements (point,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Yuri A. Rylov

Usually a Riemannian geometry is considered to be the most general geometry, which could be used as a space-time geometry. In fact, any Riemannian geometry is a result of some deformation of the Euclidean geometry. Class of these Riemannian…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

A physical theory of the world is presented under the unifying principle that all of nature is laid out before us and experienced through the passage of time. The one-dimensional progression in time is opened out into a multi-dimensional…

General Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 David J. Jackson

There were many attempts to geometrize electromagnetic field and find out new interpretation for quantum mechanics formalism. The distinctive feature of this work is that it combines geometrization of electromagnetic field and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 O. A. Ol'khov

This document contains a description of physics entirely based on a geometric presentation: all of the theory is described giving only a pseudo-riemannian manifold (M, g) of dimension n > 5 for which the g tensor is, in studied domains,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Michel Vaugon

Spacetime and internal symmetries can be used to severely restrict the form of the equations for the fundamental laws of physics. The success of this approach in the context of general relativity and particle physics motivates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-16 Saurya Das , Gabor Kunstatter

In this article we present pictorially the foundation of differential geometry which is a crucial tool for multiple areas of physics, notably general and special relativity, but also mechanics, thermodynamics and solving differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Jonathan Gratus

We study the most elementary aspects of harmonic analysis on a homogeneous space of a deformation of the two-dimensional Euclidean group, admitting generalizations to dimensions three and four, whose quantum parameter has the physical…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 F. Bonechi , R. Giachetti , M. A. del Olmo , E. Sorace , M. Tarlini

One considers the monistic conception of a geometry, where there is only one fundamental quantity (world function). All other geometrical quantities a derivative quantities (functions of the world function). The monisitc conception of a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-09-16 Yuri A. Rylov

In a recent publication the I showed how the geometric algebra ${G}_{4,1}$, the algebra of 5-dimensional space-time, can generate relativistic dynamics from the simple principle that only null geodesics should be allowed. The same paper…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida
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