Open AccessThe new metric of Einstein and the wave equation
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1928.0226
Subject(s) - metric (unit) , einstein , space (punctuation) , wave equation , mathematics , scale factor (cosmology) , mathematical analysis , physics , pure mathematics , mathematical physics , computer science , astrophysics , cosmology , operations management , metric expansion of space , dark energy , economics , operating system
In two papers published in these 'Proceedings' the suggestion was made that the wave equation is a metrical equation and that the quantity ψ is characteristic of the metrics of physical space. In developing this view a definition of equality of vectors at different points was given and ψ was interpreted as the natural scale factor. Except for the definition of equality the space was Riemannian. The system was suggested by that of Weyl and Eddington and was, in fact, almost identical with it.