"For those interested, the book is a good and well-written overview of the work of Wesson and his collaborators. For those with a general interest in extensions of standard physics, accessibility is strongly dependent on the reader's technical background, though the good structure of the book and copious references (including many to work by more-mainstream physicists on related topics) make that possible for those willing to invest some time."
The Observatory Magazine
This book is a summing up of the prospects for unification between relativity and particle physics based on the extension of Einstein's theory of General Relativity to five dimensions. This subject was first established by Paul Wesson in his previous best-seller, Space-Time-Matter, and discussed from a different perspective in Five-Dimensional Physics, both published by World Scientific in 1999 and 2006 respectively. This third book brings the field up to date and details many new developments and connections to particle theory and wave mechanics in particular. It was in largely finished form at the time of Paul Wesson's untimely death in 2015, and has been completed and expanded by his former student and longtime collaborator, James Overduin.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Standard General Relativity
Contents:
- Standard General Relativity
- Space-Time-Matter Theory
- Cosmology in 5D
- Astrophysics in 5D
- The Solitons
- Electromagnetism in 5D
- Canonical Space
- Particles, Waves and Vacuum
- The Fifth Dimension
- Appendix: Paul Wesson (1949–2015)
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in particle physics.
"This is a self-contained text but does assume some background in tensor analysis, and a familiarity with general relativity will be very helpful. The book is well written and will interest graduate students, faculty, and researchers. It could serve as a supplement to a course in general relativity."
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"For those interested, the book is a good and well-written overview of the work of Wesson and his collaborators. For those with a general interest in extensions of standard physics, accessibility is strongly dependent on the reader's technical background, though the good structure of the book and copious references (including many to work by more-mainstream physicists on related topics) make that possible for those willing to invest some time."
The Observatory Magazine
"The text reading in the book follows explained theory and presents results and main results of calculations as equations and formulas. This means readers can do calculations by themselves and compare the results with the book. In particular main facts of each chapter are summarised as a conclusion part of the chapter followed by a reference part for the chapter."
Contemporary Physics