Elementary Particles and the Geomagnetic Field

Abstract

RECENTLY J. Barnóthy¹ has proposed an explanation of the elementary particles (protons, electrons, etc.) in terms of serial universes, each enclosed in one of higher order. The elementary particles of our universe are universes of a lower order; our universe is an elementary particle in a higher universe. The universes are three-dimensional curved ones enclosed in a four-dimensional space; that of an elementary particle has a two-dimensional intersection with our universe, which delimits a region excluded from the latter. Mass in an elementary universe becomes imaginary mass (√− 1 × mass) when viewed from ours; the gravitational attraction between two imaginary masses is a real electrostatic force. The spin of an elementary universe gives parts of its mass a velocity.greater than c; this makes the imaginary mass acquire real linear and angular momentum. Nuclear forces in our universe are the counterparts of cosmical repulsions in the elementary universe. Protons and electrons arise from Einstein universes of negative and positive curvature; a neutron is formed by the combination of a proton and another particle arising from a de Sitter universe.