Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum (Fundamental Theories of Physics, #168)

by Virginia Velma Fern Ndez and Waldyr A. Rodrigues

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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.

  • ISBN10 3642135900
  • ISBN13 9783642135903
  • Publish Date 13 September 2010 (first published 5 September 2010)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Out of Print 18 October 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Springer
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 164
  • Language English