Proposed Experiments to Test the Unified Description of Gravitation and Electromagnetism through a Symmetric Metric

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1999-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910095v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

LaTex, 14 pages, 4 figures(now enlarged), a footnote expanded

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If gravitation and electromagnetism are both described in terms of a symmetric metric tensor, then the deflection of an electron beam by a charged sphere should be different from its deflection according to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution of General Relativity. If such a unified description is true, the equivalence principle for the electric field implies that the photon has a nonzero effective electric charge-to-mass ratio and should be redshifted in an electric field and be deflected in a magnetic field. Experiments to test these predictions are proposed.

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