The fifth dimension: Theodor Kaluza's ground-breaking idea (Q4452483)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2041475
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2041475 |
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The fifth dimension: Theodor Kaluza's ground-breaking idea (English)
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12 February 2004
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Theodor Kaluza
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Kaluza-Klein theory
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cosmology
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unified field theory
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Theodor Kaluza (1885 -- 1954) is now most known as one of the ingredients of the Kaluza-Klein theory. The present paper arose from the Dissertation of its author about the life and work of Kaluza. The early motivation for the Kaluza-Klein theory was to unify gravity and electromagnetism in a 5-dimensional model. In recent years, however, the same theory is applied mainly to cosmology, now under names like M-theory or higher dimensional cosmology. It is the main advantage of the present paper to carefully distinguish the different steps in this change of view, and to give a carefully sampled and commented reference list.
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