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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 10: Alternative Ansätze

GR 10.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 16:50–17:10, SFG 0150

Gravity Based on Lorentz's instead of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity — •Albrecht Giese — Taxusweg 15, 22605 Hamburg

Einstein developed his theory of relativity as a purely geometric system. In contrast to his approach, Hendrik Lorentz developed a physics-related relativity. However, Lorentz had to make some assumptions which were considered very speculative at the time, and so he had little chance of holding his ground against Einstein's geometry. In the meantime, however, the Lorentzian approach conforms to our understanding of physics. It exhibits great advantages, physically and with respect to understandability, compared to Einstein's.

Lorentz in his day only developed special relativity. However general relativity can also be developed based on Lorentz's physics-related approach. The result is a theory which fulfils all known proofs for Einstein's GRT and is in addition much easier to handle: no 4-dimensional Riemannian geometry is needed; school mathematics is sufficient. And the big open problems of dark matter and dark energy have solutions corresponding to a straightforward physical explanation and complying fully with other physical domains.

Further Info: www.ag-physics.org/gravity