Can we obtain the predictive value of GP-B experiment direct from the well known experimental results? This predictive value is more reliable then that deduced from special model of theory. In this paper, we calculate in this way. The result is same as that from special relativistic gravitational theory. So it is extremely likely that GP-B experiment will prove space-time is flat.
Whether the space-time is curved or not? The experimental criterions to judge this point are: (1) The results of three classical relativistic experiments in essence are favorable to the special relativistic gravitational theory (base in the flat space-time). However they are unfavorable to the general relativity. (2) In the Gravity Probe-B experiment: the gyroscope precession rate of the orbital effect deduced from the special relativistic gravitational theory =(2/3)* the precession rate of geodetic effect deduced from the general relativity, the precession rate of the earth rotation effect deduced from the special relativistic gravitational theory =(3/2)* the square of cos(phi)* the precession rate of the frame-dragging effect deduced from the general relativity, where (phi) is the angle between the projection of gyroscope angular velocity in the equatorial plane and the normal line of orbital plane. If the experimental values are identical with the predictive values deduced from the special relativistic gravitational theory, then the space-time is flat.
This paper reviews some of the results of the Planck collaboration and shows how to compute the distance from the surface of last scattering, the distance from the farthest object that will ever be observed, and the maximum radius of a density fluctuation in the plasma of the CMB. It then explains how these distances together with well-known astronomical facts imply that space is flat or nearly flat and that dark energy is 69% of the energy of the universe.
A theory of gravitation is presented. This theory does not relate gravitation to curvature of space-time. It explains the three standard results of general relativity in agreement with observations and suggests new experiments.
We use a deformed differential structure to obtain a curved metric by a deformation quantization of the flat space-time. In particular, by setting the deformation parameters to be equal to physical constants we obtain the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model for inflation and a deformed version of the FRW space-time. By calculating classical Einstein-equations for the extended space-time we obtain non-trivial solutions. Moreover, in this framework we obtain the Moyal-Weyl, i.e. a constant non-commutative space-time, by a consistency condition.
At the foundation of modern physics lie two symmetries: the Lorentz symmetry and the gauge symmetry, which play quite different roles in the establishment of the standard model. In this paper, it is shown that, different from what is usually expected, the two symmetries, although mathematically independent of each other, have important overlap in their physical effects. Specifically, we find that the interaction Lagrangian of QED can be derived, based on the Lorentz symmetry with some auxiliary assumption about vacuum fluctuations, without resorting to the gauge symmetry. In particular, the derivation is based on geometric relations among representation spaces of the SL(2,C) group. In this formulation of the interaction Lagrangian, the origin of the topological equivalence of the eight basic Feynman diagrams in QED can be seen quite clearly.