Einstein and the Kaluza–Klein particle

✍ Scribed by Jeroen van Dongen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1355-2198
• DOI: 10.1016/s1355-2198(02)00017-5

✦ Synopsis

In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics, Einstein considered five-dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a nonsingular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated, and in the x 5independent theory Einstein, together with Pauli, argued it would be impossible to find these structures.