Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / October 2005

Hello to all:

I wanted to let you know that I am revamping my web site at
http://home.nycap.rr.com/jry/FermionMass.htm, and am starting to post
previews of work that I hope to publish in the upcoming months.

I have begun by posting a "Paper Preview: Five Dimensional Spacetime with
Axial Time, and the Geometric Origin of Mass."

This paper will show how if we regard the Dirac Matrices ?^U, U=0,1,2,3,5 as
the structure generators of spacetime, that the ?^5 matrix becomes naturally
associated with a fifth, timelike dimension of spacetime.  This fifth, axial
time dimension, together with the ordinary time dimension, defines a "time
plane."  This requires us to understand time as a plane through which
particles can move at an "angle," and not merely as a line allowing forward
and backward movement as first taught by Feynman.  Importantly, the mass of
a particle is understood to bear a relationship to how that particle moves
through the time plane, relatively to how we, as observers, move through the
time plane.  The more a particle's motion through the time plane parallels
our own, the larger is the mass we observe for that particle.  Massless
particles move through the time plane perpendicularly to how we, as
observers, move through the time plane.  In this way, one may be able to
arrive at a strictly geometric understanding of gravitational mass.

More to follow.  Comments are appreciated.

Jay.

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