scholarly journals Charge conservation in a gravitational field in the scalar ether theory

Open Physics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 877-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayeul Arminjon
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
Theoretical Reason ◽  
Scalar Theory ◽  
Charge Conservation ◽  
Ether Theory ◽  
Interaction Tensor ◽  
Preferred Reference Frame

AbstractA modification of the Maxwell equations due to the presence of a gravitational field was formerly proposed for a scalar theory with a preferred reference frame. With this modification, the electric charge is not conserved. The aim of the present work was to numerically assess the amount of charge production or destruction. We propose an asymptotic scheme for the electromagnetic field in a weak and slowly varying gravitational field. This scheme is valid independently of the theory and the “gravitationally-modified” Maxwell equations. Then we apply this scheme to plane waves and to a group of Hertzian dipoles in the scalar ether theory. The predicted amounts of charge production/destruction discard the formerly proposed gravitationally-modified Maxwell equations. The theoretical reason for that is the assumption that the total energy tensor is the sum of the energy tensor of the medium producing the electromagnetic (e.m.) field and the e.m. energy tensor. This means that an additional, “interaction” tensor has to be present. With this assumption, the standard Maxwell equations in a curved spacetime, which predict charge conservation, are compatible with the investigated theory. We find that the interaction energy might contribute to the dark matter.

scholarly journals On the equations of electrodynamics in a flat or curved spacetime and a possible interaction energy

Open Physics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 488-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayeul Arminjon
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Energy ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
Differential Identities ◽  
Weak Gravitational Field ◽  
Equations Of Electrodynamics ◽  
Interaction Tensor ◽  
Charged Medium ◽  
Preferred Reference Frame

AbstractIn this paper the independent equations of continuum electrodynamics and their quantity are investigated, beginning with the standard equations used in special and general relativity. Using differential identities it is checked that there are as many independent equations as there are unknowns, for the case with given sources as well as for the general case where the motion of the charged medium producing the field is unknown. This problem is then discussed in an alternative theory of gravity with a preferred reference frame, in order to constrain an additional, “interaction” energy tensor that has to be postulated in this theory, and that would be present also outside usual matter. In order that the interaction tensor be Lorentz-invariant in special relativity, it has to depend only on a scalar fieldp. Since the system of electrodynamics is closed in the absence of the interaction tensor, just one scalar equation more is needed to close it again in the presence ofp. That equation is taken to be the equation for charge conservation. Finally, the equations that allow the determination of fieldpare derived in a given weak gravitational field and in a given electromagnetic field.

Electromagnetic waves

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Deruelle ◽  
Jean-Philippe Uzan
Keyword(s):  
Plane Wave ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Geometrical Optics ◽  
Particle Detection ◽  
Spatial Coordinates ◽  
A Charge

This chapter examines solutions to the Maxwell equations in a vacuum: monochromatic plane waves and their polarizations, plane waves, and the motion of a charge in the field of a wave (which is the principle upon which particle detection is based). A plane wave is a solution of the vacuum Maxwell equations which depends on only one of the Cartesian spatial coordinates. The monochromatic plane waves form a basis (in the sense of distributions, because they are not square-integrable) in which any solution of the vacuum Maxwell equations can be expanded. The chapter concludes by giving the conditions for the geometrical optics limit. It also establishes the connection between electromagnetic waves and the kinematic description of light discussed in Book 1.

scholarly journals ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS OF CHARGED AND MAGNETIZED CYLINDRICAL CONDUCTORS IN NUT SPACE

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 687-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. AHMEDOV ◽  
A. V. KHUGAEV ◽  
N. I. RAKHMATOV
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Electric Charge ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Analytic Solutions ◽  
Vertical Magnetic Field ◽  
General Relativistic ◽  
Azimuthal Current ◽  
Cylindrical Conductors

We present analytic solutions of Maxwell equations for infinitely long cylindrical conductors with nonvanishing electric charge and currents in the external background spacetime of a line gravitomagnetic monopole. It has been shown that vertical magnetic field arising around cylindrical conducting shell carrying azimuthal current will be modified by the gravitational field of NUT source. We obtain that the purely general relativistic magnetic field which has no Newtonian analog will be produced around charged gravitomagnetic monopole.

scholarly journals Continuum dynamics and the electromagnetic field in the scalar ether theory of gravitation

Open Physics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayeul Arminjon
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Lorentz Force ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Gravitational Force ◽  
Continuous Medium ◽  
Pressure Force ◽  
Local Charge ◽  
Theory Of Gravitation ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Continuum Dynamics

AbstractAn alternative, scalar theory of gravitation has been proposed, based on a mechanism/interpretation of gravity as being a pressure force: Archimedes’ thrust. In it, the gravitational field affects the physical standards of space and time, but motion is governed by an extension of the relativistic form of Newton’s second law. This implies Einstein’s geodesic motion for free particles only in a constant gravitational field. In this work, equations governing the dynamics of a continuous medium subjected to gravitational and non-gravitational forces are derived. Then, the case where the non-gravitational force is the Lorentz force is investigated. The gravitational modification of Maxwell’s equations is obtained under the requirement that a charged continuous medium, subjected to the Lorentz force, obeys the equation derived for continuum dynamics under external forces. These Maxwell equations are shown to be consistent with the dynamics of a “free” photon, and thus with the geometrical optics of this theory. However, these equations do not imply local charge conservation, except for a constant gravitational field.

scholarly journals Simulation of a rotating strong gravity that reverses time

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Yoshio Matsuki ◽  
Petro Bidyuk
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Momentum Density ◽  
Polar Coordinates ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
Stress Energy Tensor ◽  
Strong Gravity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stress Energy ◽  
The Future

In this research we simulated how time can be reversed with a rotating strong gravity. At first, we assumed that the time and the space can be distorted with the presence of a strong gravity, and then we calculated the angular momentum density of the rotating gravitational field. For this simulation we used Einstein’s field equation with spherical polar coordinates and the Euler’s transformation matrix to simulate the rotation. We also assumed that the stress-energy tensor that is placed at the end of the strong gravitational field reflects the intensities of the angular momentum, which is the normal (perpendicular) vector to the rotating axis. The result of the simulation shows that the angular momentum of the rotating strong gravity changes its directions from plus (the future) to minus (the past) and from minus (the past) to plus (the future), depending on the frequency of the rotation.

scholarly journals The relativity theory of plane waves

1926 ◽  
Vol 111 (757) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Small Amplitude ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Relativity Theory ◽  
Transverse Waves ◽  
Propagation Of Light ◽  
Cumulative Change ◽  
The Waves

Weyl has shown that any gravitational wave of small amplitude may be regarded as the result of the superposition of waves of three types, viz.: (i) longitudinal-longitudinal; (ii) longitudinal-transverse; (iii) transverse-transverse. Eddington carried the matter much further by showing that waves of the first two types are spurious; they are “merely sinuosities in the co­ordinate system,” and they disappear on the adoption of an appropriate co-ordinate system. The only physically significant waves are transverse-transverse waves, and these are propagated with the velocity of light. He further considers electromagnetic waves and identifies light with a particular type of transverse-transverse wave. There is, however, a difficulty about the solution as left by Eddington. In its gravitational aspect light is not periodic. The gravitational potentials contain, in addition to periodic terms, an aperiodic term which increases without limit and which seems to indicate that light cannot be propagated indefinitely either in space or time. This is, of course, explained by noting that the propagation of light implies a transfer of energy, and that the consequent change in the distribution of energy will be reflected in a cumulative change in the gravitational field. But, if light cannot be propagated indefinitely, the fact itself is important, whatever be its explana­tion, for the propagation of light over very great distances is one of the primary facts which the relativity theory or any like theory must meet. In endeavouring to throw further light on this question, it seemed desirable to avoid the assumption that the amplitudes of the waves are small; terms neglected on this ground might well have a cumulative effect. All the solu­tions discussed in this paper are exact.

XLV.—The Internal and External Fields of a Particle in a Gravitational Field

1949 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-433
Author(s):  
G. L. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
External Fields ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Volume Integral ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Minor Alteration ◽  
Stress Components ◽  
System Of Particles ◽  
A Minor

SummaryThe gravitational field of a system of particles was investigated by de Sitter as far back as 1916. A minor alteration to the analysis was made by Eddington and Clark in 1938. The amended value of the potential g44 is the same as that derived by Einstein, Infeld and Hoffmann without making use of the energy-tensor; this agreement suggests that the revised de Sitter argument is correct. In this paper we show that this is not the case, for the de Sitter analysis completely overlooked any possible interaction terms in the stress components of the energy-tensor. We find the value of these terms, pmn, and show that the agreement mentioned above is due to the fact that the volume integral of pu vanishes.

scholarly journals New Tetrads in Riemannian Geometry and New Ensuing Results in Group Theory, Gauge Theory and Fundamental Physics in Particle Physics, General Relativity and Astrophysics

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1760004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcides Garat
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
Stress Energy Tensor ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Gauge Transformations ◽  
Stress Energy ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Evolution Algorithms

A new tetrad is introduced within the framework of geometrodynamics for non-null electromagnetic fields. This tetrad diagonalizes the electromagnetic stress-energy tensor and allows for maximum simplification of the expression of the electromagnetic field. The Einstein-Maxwell equations will also be simplified. New group isomorphisms are proved. The local group of electromagnetic gauge transformations is isomorphic to the new group LB1. LB1 is the group of local tetrad transformations comprised by SO(1,1) plus two different kinds of discrete transformations. The local group of electromagnetic gauge transformations is also isomorphic to the local group of tetrad transformations LB2, which is SO(2), as well. Therefore, we proved that LB1 is isomorphic to LB2. These group results amount to proving that the no-go theorems of the sixties like the S. Coleman- J. Mandula, the S. Weinberg or L. ORaifeartagh versions are incorrect. Not because of their internal logic, but because of the assumptions made at the outset of all these versions. These new tetrads are useful in astrophysics spacetime evolution algorithms since they introduce maximum simplification in all relevant objects, specially in stress-energy tensors.

scholarly journals On Eddington's higher order equations of the gravitational field

1948 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Buchdahl
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Energy Tensor ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Fundamental Equations

Einstein's fundamental equations of the gravitational field arewhere Tμν are the components of the energy tensor and λ is the cosmical constant. In empty space these equations becomewhich may be reduced tosince G = 4λ, by contraction of (2).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document