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Five-dimensional space-time: Mass and the fundamental length

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In this article, the Lorentz group is generalized to rotations in five dimensions, a ten-parameter group, and special and general Relativity are tentatively welded into one unified covariance scheme in five-dimensional space-time.
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Relativistic physics is described by a sixteen-component hypercomplex number system which reduces to the eight-component complex quaternion system when rest mass → 0. Rest mass is identified with a scale setting, cyclic, fifth dimension. The Lorentz group is generalized to rotations in five dimensions, a ten-parameter group. Special Relativity and General Relativity are tentatively welded into one unified covariance scheme in five-dimensional space-time.

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Quaternion wave equations in curved space-time

TL;DR: The quaternion formulation of relativistic quantum theory is extended to include curvilinear coordinates and curved space-time in this article, which provides a promising framework for further exploration of a unified quantum/gravity theory.
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