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View SchemaThe Fabric of Space-time II: Gravity by Photon Exchange
| Authors | Charles Francis |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/9906060 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9906060 |
Abstract
This is one of a number of papers in which the metric for space-time is defined on the subatomic level by means of the interchange of photons, and constrained to be consistent with radar. It is shown that the discrete nature of particle interactions necessitates a small inherent delay in the radar method, and hence that the resulting geometry is non- Euclidean. Thus the forces of gravity and electromagnetism can each be seen as an effect of the same interaction between elementary particles, and we can identify gravitational and inertial mass.
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