Quantum effects from a purely geometrical relativity theory

A purely geometrical relativity theory results from a construction that produces from three-dimensional space a happy unification of Kaluza's five-dimensional theory and Weyl's conformal theory. The theory can provide geometrical explanations for the following observed phenomena, among others: (a) lifetimes of elementary particles of lengths inversely proportional to their rest masses; (b) the equality of charge magnitude among all charged particles interacting at an event; (c) the propensity of electrons in atoms to be seen in discretely spaced orbits; and (d) `quantum jumps' between those orbits. This suggests the possibility that the theory can provide a deterministic underpinning of quantum mechanics like that provided to thermodynamics by the molecular theory of gases.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX jpconf.cls (Institute of Physics Publishing), 6 Encapsulated PostScript figures (Fig. 6 is 1.8M uncompressed); Presented at VI Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics "Approaches to Quantum Gravity

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Cosmology without Einstein's assumption that inertial mass produces gravity

Giving up Einstein's assumption, implicit in his 1916 field equations, that inertial mass, even in its appearance as energy, is equivalent to active gravitational mass and therefore is a source of gravity allows revising the field equations to a form in which a positive cosmological constant is seen to (mis)represent a uniform negative net mass density of gravitationally attractive and gravitationally repulsive matter. Field equations with both positive and negative active gravitational mass densities of both primordial and continuously created matter incorporated, along with two scalar fields to `relax the constraints' on the space-time geometry, yield cosmological solutions that exhibit inflation, deceleration, coasting, acceleration, and a `big bounce' instead of a `big bang', and provide good fits to a Hubble diagram of type Ia supernovae data. The repulsive matter is identified as the back sides of the `drainholes' introduced by the author in 1973 as solutions of those same field equations. Drainholes (prototypical examples of `traversable wormholes') are topological tunnels in space which gravitationally attract on their front, entrance sides and repel more strongly on their back, exit sides. The front sides serve both as the gravitating cores of the visible, baryonic particles of primordial matter and as the continuously created, invisible particles of the `dark matter' needed to hold together the large scale structures seen in the universe; the back sides serve as the misnamed `dark energy' driving the current acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Formation of cosmic voids, walls, filaments, and nodes is attributed to expulsion of drainhole entrances from regions populated by drainhole exits, and accumulation of the entrances on boundaries separating those regions.Comment: v4: Essential revision and major extension, new title; v5: introduction, two references, and table of contents added; v6: further discussion of issues, improved fitting of model to SNe Ia data marginally favors closed universe aged 12.52 Gyr; v7: 35 pages, improved clarity, new material and references; v8: much abbreviated version of v7, 26 pages, new title (see v7 for Hubble calculations