From: jyablon@nycap.rr.com   
      
   Ben,   
      
   In ordinary four dimensional gravitational theory, the metric tensor   
   only contains gravitational fields. The addition of a Kaluza Klein   
   fifth dimension adds a spin one vector potential gauge field to the   
   metric tensor, along with a spin zero scaler field.   
      
   Now, it is well-known that weak and strong interactions are very   
   similar to electromagnetic interactions, except for the fact that   
   they employ noncommuting Yang Mills gauge groups rather than the   
   commuting U(1) group of electromagnetism. And these theories have   
   been extraordinarily successful describing observed phenomenology.   
      
   As a result, it is my belief that once you have a U(1) gauge field   
   integrated into the metric tensor in five dimensions, it is unnecessary   
   to add any additional dimensions in order to pick up the phenomenology   
   of weak and strong interactions, and even of the larger GUT groups   
   in which those are embedded and from which they are obtained following   
   symmetry breaking. Rather, all that is necessary, in my opinion,   
   is to regard the U(1) gauge fields which are already part of the   
   five dimensional metric tensor as non abelian SU(N) gauge fields   
   and carry out the Einstein field equation calculations accordingly.   
   In other words, we remain with no more than five dimensions, and   
   simply give everything the internal symmetry that we have come to   
   know and utilize very successfully in the settled theories of strong   
   and electroweak interactions, then do the calculations.   
      
   Of course, the devil is always in the details. Over the next several   
   weeks after I return home I plan to calculate out the equation of   
   motion and Einstein field equation for the modified DKK Metric   
   tensor which I presented in the first draft paper which is the topic   
   of this thread discussion. I will be doing so for electromagnetism,   
   but while I do so I will keep in mind the desirability of generalizing   
   to Yang Mills gauge groups.=20   
      
   One of the very intriguing prospects which I will be keeping an eye   
   out for is that of using the KK scaler as a Higgs type scaler for   
   symmetry breaking. Specifically, as I showed in section 2 of the   
   subject paper, in order to maintain general covariance of the KK   
   metric tensor, 2 degrees of freedom must come out of the vector   
   potentials, which thereby become the potentials for a massless   
   photon with two helicity states. In electrodynamics, I suspect that   
   this scaler will end up in a field equation which is related to   
   particle rest mass. And I would be thrilled beyond belief if it   
   provided a mechanism for understanding fermion rest masses, which   
   is a problem I have always wanted to be able to solve. But when we   
   move over to Yang Mills theory, it will be necessary to restore one   
   of the removed degrees of freedom in order to generate massive   
   bosons, specifically for electroweak interactions. I will be keeping   
   an eye out for whether the KK scaler can serve the same function   
   as the Higgs boson in similar fashion. Which is to say, the first   
   generalization I am inclined to attempt once I fully develop   
   electromagnetism, is a generalization to a KK electroweak theory   
   which produces the same results as the Weinberg Salam theory that   
   has been settled since the 1980s.   
      
   Jay   
      
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