THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE AS A PROBE FOR HIGHER DIMENSIONS
Abstract
Higher-dimensional theories of the kind which may unify gravitation with particle physics can lead to significant modifications of general relativity. In five dimensions, the vacuum becomes non-standard, and the Weak Equivalence Principle becomes a geometrical symmetry which can be broken, perhaps at a level detectable by new tests in space.
This essay received an "honorable mention" in the 2005 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.
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