The Schwarzschild Solution

To show that the Refractive metric is a function of the mass and energy of objects in the environment we consider the Refractive metric components in spherical polar coordinates. It is assumed there is a central mass at the origin of the coordinate system. In terms of the refractive index the metric is,

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It is interpreted such that the refractive index , therefore the quantity can be expanded into a simple function of and , where is the distance from the origin of the coordinates.

A wave function has a characteristic wavelength, and its intrinsic dipole moment is proportional to the distance between opposite amplitudes of the wave. Therefore it is proportional to half the effective wavelength , or inversely proportional to . The simplest function of the proper form can be reverse engineered to fit the known solution,

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In the case of a motionless central mass and a negligible test particle the momentum is zero, so .

When referring to the polarizability of the wave functions at the point P, this is actually in the spirit of Mach’s principle. A wave function in free space has no boundary, so there is non-zero probability for any wave function to affect the polarizability at any point as a function of the coordinates. This is consistent with the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. The greater the number of particles, the greater the probability of a transaction. If the central object consists of N particles of mass m, then this leads directly to the Schwarzschild solution of the vacuum equation of General Relativity. Written in the usual form as a function of , with , the total mass is given by the inverse of the effective wavelength,

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Note that in geometrical units mass always has units of inverse length. Therefore we have found the Schwarzschild metric can be expressed as a function of the polarizability in the region of the point P ,

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Thus showing that the properties of mass, inertia and space-time curvature are just different aspects of the dispersion of probability waves.

Dispersion and Geometry