H Space Drive from Heim Quantum Theory

[Joseph Voros]

Hi folks,

I've been watching the flap over Heim Quantum Theory which surfaced as a
result of New Scientist publishing an article about a conference paper being
awarded a prize by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
which apparently details how to build space drive (based on some novel
physics emerging from a higher-dimensional geometrical unification of the
forces of nature). The article is at:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925331.200&feedId=fundamentals_rss20

Now, I did my PhD on Einstein's unified field theory, so I don't come at
this without some mathematical background. But I've tried to read the
various papers which are listed at:
http://public.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/~haeuser/research/Research.html
and I must confess to being mystified by them, mostly by the terminology,
which is almost opaque. I also can't quite figure out if space-time in
embedded (as a foliation) within the higher-dimensional space, or if the
theory is a fibre-bundle approach with the extra dimensions located at each
space-time point, although this could easily be because I'm a bit rusty
these days ... :-)

Has anyone seen a version of this theory which speaks the language of
differential geometry? Does anyone here actually understand it?

Intrigued, but Confused, of Melbourne :-)
JV

 

[Hdeasy]

Sorry for this very late reply - only saw this now. You probably saw some of Droscher & Hauser's latest papers where they make it plain it's more like a fibre bundle - at each point in R4 there's and internal space H8 which mediates the forces and associated properties. HD

 

[Vanadium 50]

Let's not bring long-dead threads back from the grave. There's a more current thread https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=106059".