Subject: Source of the Incorrectness of Standard Gravitational Physics
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:36:31 EDT
This can be traced to the use of the symmetric connection. The idea of connection was intorduced by Christoffel in the nineteenth century, but the symmetric connection seems to have been developed by T. Levi-Civita, the co-founder with G. Ricci-Curbastro of tensor calculus in 1900 in:
“Methods de Calcul Differential Absolu et Leurs Applications”
This was the source used by Einstein, whose many errors in tensor calculus were corrected by Levi-Civita during 1915 to 1917. Therefore it is necessary to find the above document from a library or lending library and to se whether the connection used is symmetric. I am fluent in written French so can read it. If so, this would pinpoint the source of the present fiasco, in which the whole of cosmology and gravitational physics is being shown to be incorrect because of its use of this symmetric connection. There is a classic book by Levi-Civita:
“The Absolute Differential Calculus”
and there is a need to go through this to find whether Levi-Civita ever used anything different from a symmetric connection (i.e. zero torsion). If he did not then it shows why torsion has been incorrectly eliminated from gravitational theory, rendering it meaningless, and violating the dual identity.
Levi-Civita died in isolation in 1941 after having been ostracized by the scientific community because of his ethnic background. This may also have contributed to the fact that torsion was not properly taken account of. It is clear that Einstein never properly grasped the meaning of torsion in correspondence with Cartan. Now we know that torsion is central to all physics.