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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Help
Message-ID: <1007@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 20:25:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 20:25:02 1984
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The standard objection to Kaluza-like theories (those which add dimensions
to provide internal symmetries) is that one then has to explain why four
coordinates appear to uniquely identify a event.  There is something
upsetting in the idea of postulating higher dimensionality without being
forced to..