The Reissner-Nordstrom Metric, Invalidity of E = mc2, and Einstein’s Unification
C. Y. Lo
Applied and Pure Research Institute
17 Newcastle Drive, Nashua, NH 03060
August 2011
Abstract
The formula E = mc2 is often misinterpreted as unconditionally valid. This unverified speculation is often used for supporting invalidity in physics. This error is, in part, responsible for the misinterpretations of the Reissner-Nordstrom metric of a charged particle. Thus, the charge-mass interaction that could have been discovered from this metric is over looked for about 90 years. Recently, experiments have verified the existence of such a new charge-mass repulsive force, and thus reject the misinterpretations. Concurrently, the nonequivalence of mass and electric energy is also clearly verified, and thus the photons must included non-electromagnetic energy. Therefore, current theories based on unconditionally validity of this formula should be revised with new supports. This new force demands a new coupling from the unification of gravitation and electromagnetism, and the existence of a five-dimensional space that Einstein conjectured. Then, the weight reduction of a charged capacitor, which is beyond general relativity, can be understood. Thus, a new chapter for both experimental and theoretical physics is now opened.
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Key Words: Einstein’s Equivalence Principle, Preliminary Assumption of Equivalence, Physical Space, the Euclidean-like structure, Einstein-Minkowski condition.
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