On the origin of Kaluza's idea of unification and its relation to earlier work by Thirring

Y. Verbin; N. K. Nielsen

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On the origin of Kaluza's idea of unification and its relation to earlier work by Thirring

Y. Verbin, N. K. Nielsen

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Abstract

We argue that the starting point of Kaluza's idea of unifying electrodynamics and gravity was the analogy between gravitation and electromagnetism which was pointed out by Einstein and Thirring. It seems that Kaluza's attention was turned to this point by the three papers on the Lense-Thirring effect and the analogy between gravitation and electromagnetism which were published a short time before Kaluza's paper was submitted. We provide here also an English translation of the third of these papers (Phys. Zeits. 19: 204 1918).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	427-433
Number of pages	7
Journal	General Relativity and Gravitation
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-005-0032-0
State	Published - Feb 2005

Keywords

Higher-dimensional theories
History of physics
Kaluza
Thirring
Unification

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