Space-time uncertainty from higher-dimensional determinism

DOI10.1023/B:GERG.0000010504.65118.FDzbMATH Open1044.83022arXivgr-qc/0309134OpenAlexW3105402313WikidataQ125863651 ScholiaQ125863651MaRDI QIDQ1424877FDOQ1424877

Authors: P. S. Wesson 

Publication date: 15 March 2004

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Heisenberg's uncertainty relation is commonly regarded as defining a level of unpredictability that is fundamentally incompatible with the deterministic laws embodied in classical field theories such as Einstein's general relativity. We here show that this is not necessarily the case. Using 5D as an example of dimensionally-extended relativity, we employ a novel metric to derive the standard quantum rule for the action and a form of Heisenberg's relation that applies to real and virtual particles. The philosophical implications of these technical results are somewhat profound.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0309134

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintydeterminismEinsteinHeisenbergmembrane theoryinduced matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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