Overview
- Introduces a new theory of the gravitational field
- Novel mathematical concepts are presented and explained in detail
- Explicitly demonstrates advantages over previous descriptions of the gravitational field
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 168)
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Addressing graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics and mathematics, this book presents a new formulation of the theory of gravity. In the new approach the gravitational field has the same ontology as the electromagnetic, strong, and weak fields. In other words it is a physical field living in Minkowski spacetime. Some necessary new mathematical concepts are introduced and carefully explained. Then they are used to describe the deformation of geometries, the key to describing the gravitational field as a plastic deformation of the Lorentz vacuum. It emerges after further analysis that the theory provides trustworthy energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws, a feature that is normally lacking in General Relativity.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum
Authors: Virginia Velma Fernández, Waldyr A. Rodrigues
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13589-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-13588-0Published: 05 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26485-6Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-13589-7Published: 02 September 2010
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 154
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Algebra, Cosmology, Differential Geometry