Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / January 2007

Hmmm...not much electromagnetism from that perspective.
Doesn't electromagnetism work from a Lorentz force
perspective?

<< space-time has a non-isotropic nature which is
quite unlike Euclidian space with its positive definite
metric. According to the relativity principle, all[1] physical
laws are expressible as interrelationships between
4-tensors in [Lorenz?] space-time.
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/lectures/node13.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0204034

Sue...
[1] Almost all?
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html

Hi Ken.

I'm trying to process your document on the other thread that I see
you've started(spacetime and Kerr)
I don't have any good questions yet but I just thought I'd ack your
ping and let you know that I'm reading along.
I find it diffficult to adopt spacetime as isotropic; the
unidirectioinality of time denies this.
I have a difficult time with the term 'isotropic'.
If an anisotropic system existed that matched reality then it would
still have appropriate behaviors.
Especially if you consider the dimensional relation between
electricity and magnetism we see evidence of anisotropic
singularities, though the development is done on top of isotropic
space. I would hope that inverting this configuration somehow could
take us toward an interesting new solution. That new solution would
hopefully wipe away the distinction between electricity and magnetism
by restructuring the basis.

There is an easy analogy between galactic phenomena and the electron.
That sounds a bit cheesy but when we see axial phenomena from rotation
at both scales these become suggestive of a possible anisotropic
solution. This (perhaps incidentally) is consistent with the polysign
derivation of spacetime. If a general dimensional system can
degenerate to three spatial dimensions and we then adopt the general
dimensional solution it may be like accepting noncomputability of
nature to an even greater degree. Still, if some observed behaviors
such as spacetime and electromagnetism came out of the system it could
be deemed a serious contender. This is not unlike a string theory
model except that it is built on unspecified dimensions instead of a
fixed number of higher dimensions. If we ask the question 'why
spacetime?' and we answer with a ten dimensional solution we are then
left asking 'why ten dimensions?'. I once shared this simplistic
thought with Lisa Randall but never got any return message. She is one
of a handfull of people that consider such problems.

For me the deeper problem with relativity theory is embedded in these
considerations. When the basis is derived by mathematics the
theoretical purity of the system transcends its alternative. Still I
have no such completed system so I can only offer this as conjecture.

-Tim