Equation unites quantum physics, Einstein's general relativity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650524001130

by jv22222 • 2 years ago

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patrakov• 2 years ago

The authors claim that they came with a formalism that reconciles quantum mechanics and general relativity. My personal opinion is that this work is too wild to be true.

The key ingredient of this work is the treatment of the Ricci curvature tensor as a commutator of two covariant derivatives of a vector quantity in the coordinates, and the authors assume that this also applies to its effect on wave functions when everything is rewritten in terms of Planck units. The rewrite is important because the usual units of mass, length, and time might not be constants after the rewrite. The authors specifically note that the fine-structure "constant" might not actually be a constant and provide a connection with the universe radius.

Another ingredient of the article is the idea that not only mass creates space-time curvature, but also the relaxation of the space-time curvature creates mass.

Results that are correctly reproduced from this formalism include:

* Dirac equation both for zero-mass and massive particles;

* Klein-Gordon equation, which describes scalar particles, with an additional term due to the space-time curvature;

* Maxwell's equations;

* Dirac equation of motion for gluons and quarks;

* Electron mass and quark masses (approximately).

The article then proceeds into an utterly wild area that connects the masses of the three types of neutrinos with the radii of the solar system, our galaxy, and the universe. The prediction for the electron neutrino mass is something that can be falsified experimentally and is bordering on inconsistency with the established upper limits from the Standard Model.

EDIT: the opinion on Reddit is "total garbage, equations do not make any sense": https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1fbl3aw/comment/lm...

sieste• 2 years ago

I don't really understand the physics and mathematics used in this paper. But if authors, reviewers and editors either didn't see, or couldn't be bothered to fix, the many grammar mistakes, I don't have much faith in the correctness of their model of life, the universe, and everything.

Equation unites quantum physics, Einstein's general relativity

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