Quantum Measurement, Gravitation, and Locality in the Dynamic Theory

Abstract

This presentation gives an overview of the Dynamic Theory which offers classical thermodynamics as a new basis for the various physical theories. This leads to a five dimensional description of nature where the five dimensions are space, time, and mass. Just as in thermodynamics where an integrating factor, the temperature, ties the energy, heat, to the entropy, the Dynamic Theory produces two metrics tied by a geometrical integrating factor. One metric is integrable and, necessarily Riemannian, while the other is a non-integrable Weyl space. In the geometrical picture entropy is the arc length of the Riemannian space. The gauge function which appears in the Weyl space leads to a tencomponent gauge field tensor in which the gravitational vector field and the gravitational potential represent four components with the electric and magnetic vector fields representing the remaining six components. Isentropic states lead to a null trajectory in the entropy space, which is Einstein’ s trajectory of light, but lead to an infinite number of null trajectories in the Weyl space which are given by a generalization of quantum mechanics. The null trajectories in the Weyl space, which are quantum states, give rise to quantization of the gauge field in terms of integer units of charge and lead to a nonsingular gauge potential of the form (1/r)exp[-(lambda/r)]. The fact that the gravitational field appears as a gauge field in the five-dimensional field tensor, which comes from the gauge function, means that the gravitational field influences the quantum measurement (i.e., the least unit of action) and this shows up in the prediction of the red shifts from stellar objects. Since the gravitational potential is a non-singular form the predicted advance of the perihelion of binary stars is half that of Einstein’s General Relativity which makes a better agreement with experiment, yet yields that same prediction as General Relativity when one body is very massive compared to the other.