A priori prejudice in Weyl's unintended unification of gravitation and electricity
Afriat, Alexander (2007) A priori prejudice in Weyl's unintended unification of gravitation and electricity.
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Abstract
It is argued that Weyl's theory of gravitation and electricity came out of `mathematical justice': out of the equal rights direction and length. Such mathematical justice was clearly at work in the context of discovery, and is enough, together with a couple of simple and natural operations, to derive all of source-free electromagnetism. Weyl's repeated references to coordinates and gauge are taken to express equal treatment of direction and length.
| Keywords: | Weyl; relativity; gravitation; electromagnetism; gauge |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Mathematics Specific Sciences: Physics: Symmetries/Invariances Specific Sciences: Physics: Relativity Theory General Issues: History of Science Case Studies |
| ID Code: | 3463 |
| Deposited By: | Afriat, Alexander |
| Deposited On: | 09 August 2007 |
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