Didn’t look all the way through that paper yet, but… if you mean the Riemann curvature tensor having antisymmetric parts… so? How does that kill GR? (besides, anti symmetry is a type of symmetry. I didn’t mean symmetric as in “symmetric vs antisymmetric tensors”, I meant it in the more general sense.)
(Okay, I know of Einstein-Cartan-Theory, but I haven’t studied it yet. I still only have a rudimentary grasp of the math of basic GR)
But… what’s any of this got to do with my original question?
It doesn’t kill GR—it is the foundation. It just adds torsion to curvature, and that changes almost everything. What I am suggesting is that your question is about a theory that is no longer relevant if ECE is correct (which I have come to believe over a number of years). To go deeper, you do have to go do the maths, but they are not that hard.
So I was trying to gently get you to look in a different direction which may have a higher payback for your time, and also predicts that there is no Higgs, which brought me to the blog in the first place. Your choice, of course. Lots of people are invested in the Standard Model.
Didn’t look all the way through that paper yet, but… if you mean the Riemann curvature tensor having antisymmetric parts… so? How does that kill GR? (besides, anti symmetry is a type of symmetry. I didn’t mean symmetric as in “symmetric vs antisymmetric tensors”, I meant it in the more general sense.)
(Okay, I know of Einstein-Cartan-Theory, but I haven’t studied it yet. I still only have a rudimentary grasp of the math of basic GR)
But… what’s any of this got to do with my original question?
It doesn’t kill GR—it is the foundation. It just adds torsion to curvature, and that changes almost everything. What I am suggesting is that your question is about a theory that is no longer relevant if ECE is correct (which I have come to believe over a number of years). To go deeper, you do have to go do the maths, but they are not that hard.
So I was trying to gently get you to look in a different direction which may have a higher payback for your time, and also predicts that there is no Higgs, which brought me to the blog in the first place. Your choice, of course. Lots of people are invested in the Standard Model.
Well, I think my question about gauge symmetries is more general anyways. Are you claiming a rejection of QFT itself?
yes. http://atomicprecision.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/example-of-the-antisymmetry-laws/