Volume 24: Pages 169-174, 2011

The clouds of physics and Einstein's last query: Can quantum mechanics be derived from general relativity?

F. Winterberg ^a

University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557-0058, USA

In 1927 Einstein, with the help of Grommer, unsuccessfully tried to derive the uncertainty principle from the vacuum field equations of general relativity. An attempt is here made to evaluate Einstein's early work toward quantum gravity in the context of recent developments in elementary particle physics and cosmology.

En 1927, Einstein, avec l'aide de Grommer, tenté en vain de dériver le principe d'incertitude des équations du champ dans le vide de la relativité générale. Une tentative est faite ici d'évaluer les premiers travails d'Einstein dans la gravité quantique dans le contexte des récents développements de la physique des particules élémentaires et la cosmologie.

Keywords: Quantum Gravity, Quantum Ether, Planck Mass Plasma, Cosmological Constant

Received: June 9, 2009; Accepted: February 2, 2011; Published Online: March 1, 2011

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