Physics – General Physics
Scientific paper
2005-07-13
1st Crisis in Cosmology Conference, CCC - I, AIP Conference Proceedings, 822, pp. 110-122, Moncao (Portugal), 2006
Physics
General Physics
Presented at the 1st Crisis in Cosmology Confrence, CCC-I
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2189128
What if physics is just the way we perceive geometry? That is, what if geometry and physics will one day become one and the same discipline? I believe that will mean we will at last really understand physics, without postulates other than those defining the particular space where the physics play is performed. In this paper I use 5-dimensional spacetime as a point of departure and make a very peculiar assignment between coordinates and physical distances and time. I assume there is an hyperspherical symmetry which is made apparent by assigning the hypersphere radius to proper time and distances on the hypersphere to usual 3-dimensional distances. Time, or Compton time to distinguish from cosmic time is the 0th coordinate and I am able to project everything into 4-dimensions by imposing a null displacement condition. Surprisingly nothing else is needed to explain Hubble's expansion law without any appeal to dark matter; an empty Universe will expand naturally at a flat rate in this way. I then discuss the perturbative effects of a small mass density in the expansion rate in a qualitative way; quantitative results call for the solution of equations that sometimes have not even been clearly formulated and so are deferred to later work. A brief outlook of the consequences an hyperspherical symmetry has for galaxy dynamics allows the derivation of constant rotation velocity curves, again without appealing to dark matter. An appendix explains how electromagnetism is made consistent with this geometric approach and justifies the fact that photons must travel on hypersphere circles, to be normal to proper time.
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