Abstract
There are reasons for believing that the gravitational constant varies with time. Such a variation would force one to modify Einstein’s theory of gravitation. It is proposed that the modification should consist in the revival of Weyl’s geometry, in which lengths are non-integrable when carried around closed loops, the lack of integrability being connected with the electromagnetic field. A new action principle is set up, much simpler than Weyl’s, but requiring a scalar field function to describe the gravitational field, in addition to the
g
μν
. The vacuum field equations are worked out and also the equations of motion for a particle. An important feature of Weyl’s geometry is that it leads to a breaking of the
C
and
T
symmetries, with no breaking of
P
or of
CT
. The breaking does not show itself up with the simpler kinds of charged particles, but requires a more complicated kind of term in the action integral for the particle.
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