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30 Mar 2006 08:40:01 PM |
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What's wrong with KK theory? It's testable! |
I know my references for this subject are only this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza-Klein_theory
However, I have yet to run into any significant argument against using
something similar to Kaluza Klein theory. In Kaluza Klein theory, the
other fundamental forces come as a result of gravity, not the other way
around.
Why is this wrong?
(...Starblade Riven Darksquall...)
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with KK theory? It's testable! |
30 Mar 2006 11:01:34 PM |
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wrote:
I know my references for this subject are only this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza-Klein_theory
However, I have yet to run into any significant argument against using
something similar to Kaluza Klein theory. In Kaluza Klein theory, the
other fundamental forces come as a result of gravity, not the other way
around.
Why is this wrong?
(...Starblade Riven Darksquall...)
Not a bad idea--extra curled up dimension giving rise to properties
of particles... maybe it's not wrong... but how do you test the
theory?
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: What's wrong with KK theory? It's testable! |
30 Mar 2006 11:24:50 PM |
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The only way I can think of involves the radion. You can either look
for a radion directly, or you can look for the consequences of its
existence. Look at this paragraph here:
"The original theory identifies =CE=9B with the fiber metric g55, and
allows =CE=9B to vary from fiber to fiber. In this case, the coupling
between gravity and the electromagnetic field is not constant, but has
its own dynamical field, the radion."
It is concievable that due to the radion, we would see variations in
the coupling between gravity and the electromagnetic field. THAT is
testable, though not easily so.
(=2E..Starblade Riven Darksquall...)
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