On a New Non-Geometric Element in Gravity
arXiv:gr-qc/9705050 · doi:10.1023/A:1018874111373
Abstract
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.
1997 Gravity Research Foundation Essay (Fourth Prize), 11 pages
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