On a new nongeometric element in gravity

May, 1997
11 pages
Published in:
  • Gen.Rel.Grav. 29 (1997) 1491-1501
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Report number:
  • LA-UR-97-864

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Abstract: (arXiv)
In this essay a generalized notion of flavor-oscillation clocks is introduced. The generalization contains the element that various superimposed mass eigenstates may have different relative orientation of the component of their spin with respect to the rotational axis of the the gravitational source. It is found that these quantum mechanical clocks do not always redshift identically when moved from the gravitational environment of a non-rotating source to the field of a rotating source. The non-geometric contributions to the redshifts may be interpreted as quantum mechanically induced fluctuations over a geometric structure of space-time.
  • gravitation
  • space-time: geometry
  • quantum mechanics
  • flavor: oscillation
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