Remarks on Dirac's New Theory
- 5 August 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 33 (6) , 387-388
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.33.387
Abstract
We show that Dirac's proposed scalar-tensor theory of gravitation and electromagnetism can be rewritten in such a way that the scalar field decouples from the rest of the world. The symmetry breaking implicit in the formalism is shown to be unobservable.Keywords
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