Proposed Experiments to Test the Unified Description of Gravitation and Electromagnetism through a Symmetric Metric

TL;DR

This paper proposes experiments to test a unified symmetric metric theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, predicting observable differences in electron deflection, photon redshift, and deflection in electric and magnetic fields, challenging standard theories.

Contribution

It introduces experimental tests for a symmetric metric unification of gravity and electromagnetism, offering predictions that differ from established theories.

Findings

Predicted electron deflection differs from Reissner-Nordström solution

Photon may have a nonzero effective electric charge-to-mass ratio

Photons could be redshifted in electric fields and deflected in magnetic fields

Abstract

If gravitation and electromagnetism are both described in terms of a symmetric metric tensor, then the deflection of an electron beam by a charged sphere should be different from its deflection according to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution of General Relativity. If such a unified description is true, the equivalence principle for the electric field implies that the photon has a nonzero effective electric charge-to-mass ratio and should be redshifted in an electric field and be deflected in a magnetic field. Experiments to test these predictions are proposed.